I would like to see your hypothetical Smart Fortwo/Scotty Sportsman combination on a tall bridge with a strong crosswind.

If it spent most of its life in Northern Virginia it dealt with a lot of salt on the roads.

Note the rear license plate frame.

Good eye!  Now, I feel stupid(er).

I see no evidence of AC in the picture of the engine bay. Did they engineer it so well that we can’t see a compressor and refrigerant lines?

There is only one picture of the engine bay, but I’ll be damned if I can find anything that hints of an A/C system.

Supposedly ‘world famous’, but kind of pricey.

What’s next? Homosexuals? This country is going to Hell!

Scratch offs.

This is the car for driving around a little college town, and nothing more.

I’ve always wanted to drive one of these babies before I decided whether to own one.  That said, the confusion on the model year makes me think it is a bit overpriced.

Yep. Once his celebrity winds down to nothing he will eat a gun.

West Texas?  No thanks.

But it wasn’t his personal car yet, since he was still paying it off and presumably it had a lien on the title.

I believe the concept of agency applies here, thus voiding the ‘freelancing’ bullshit.

Please tell us more about life without central banking and reverting back to a gold standard. All of that worked out splendidly, didn’t it?

Fortunately, the money supply can be reduced.  It will kill the stock and bond markets, but that’s the tradeoff.

If it lasts through a summer without the engine or transmission destroying themselves, why not? If it lasts through two summers you have done very well.

4th Gear: The first lesson of any computer security/continuity of operations course is NEVER put your computers at the lowest point of a building (e.g. basement). Water tends to collect there through flooding, burst pipes, etc.

I swear there is a direct correlation between the student loans being handed out and the ever-rising cost of college. If loans were no longer handed out the cost of education would drop noticeably, and for-profit colleges would be swept into the dustbin of history.