Had one for 16 years. Admittedly, I got it from a junkyard in the first place, but I'd simply picked up where the other guy had left off in a constant battle to keep it from rusting away to nothing, despite being in San Diego, which isn't *quite* the City that Rust Forgot, but isn't usually bad. Finally ended up…

It's making me reconsider my dislike of sand beige. Given that I have to repaint my '66, and that was the original color...

Sadly, that's where I'm falling on this one, too. I've seen conversions done for the same price that are far cleaner and better. I get the impression he was going for a rat rod, but it kind of came off half-assed.

A Chevy small-block?! What do you think this is, a '32 Ford rebuild? o.O

The Morris Marina?

No fun. Full of eels.

My '66 has a 2054cc, and gets about 120 HP. I've seen the Type 4 block used in the later Busses and the Porsche 914 bumped up all the way to 2733cc and 250 HP.

Doesn't need to be Jezebel to mention that the Godaddy commercial was a steaming pile of dogshit.

Evidently they weight them dramatically differently. And it was definitely the 1 liter petrol version on both sites: the diesel Smart only has 54 HP, and would be a completely different comparison.

...or you could go to www.smart.com or uk.smart.com and see that, today, the exact same 1 liter gas engine producing 70 HP (though the UK site lists it as 71 HP), with exact same torque figures (once you convert units) has a US mileage figure that's two-thirds what the UK site claims.

MPV = mpg. Android virtual keyboards give me a sad.

A Smart ForTwo with the 1-liter engine (the only size available in the US) is EPA listed as getting 34/38 mpg, averaging 36 MPV. The same car with the same engine on Smart's UK site as getting 4.2-4.3 liters/100 km, equivalent to 56 mpg US. Same basic car, same engine, very different mileage ratings.

Third try posting:

What year's your Bug? I've got a '66, though mine's hardly stock anymore (I'm running around with a 2054cc, for starters)

It's...it's beautiful!