In the future we will be forced to drive these small cars. Take a look at this!!!!!!! very small but very smart cars. See all the ‘great new choices’ We will have from ‘The SMART Car’:

The Smorvette!

The Smaudi A3 AWD!

The Smamborghini!

The Smorsche!

The Smerrari!

Do You Still Want a Smart Car?  Not if you are smart!

Below is a photo of a wreck in Jefferson Parish, LA (near New Orleans) between two trucks and a Smart Car. Think I’ll pass on the Smart Car.

They Are Small But Terrible….

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone. We can not deny the fact the laughter makes life more meaningful and happier. People who enjoy a good laugh tend to have a longer life than those who have pessimistic dispositions towards their existence. One of the best ways to enjoy life is to enjoy laughter through good jokes. Jokes can make a sour face brighten and makes every frowning face switch into a lighter mode. Jokes of various topics can be found at lotsofjokes.com and its sister sites. Jokes for various occasions are likewise found here.

Enjoy life; enjoy a good laugh today!

Solar power is currently being used to power some cars. Each year, various organizations hold solar challenges, like the North American Solar Challenge (NASC) and the World Solar Challenge. These challenges host teams of future engineers that build and race solar-powered cars. The teams come from various colleges and universities around the world.

The cars, however, don’t look like anything on the road today. For one, they are long, wide and very flat. This allows them to run with minimal wind resistance while also having plenty of space for their solar cells. Even though the vehicle dimensions are large, there’s typically only enough space for one person. This is to reduce the overall weight of the vehicle. They may be unconventional, but these solar-powered projects really do work.

In the American Solar Challenge events, the cars race across the United States and Canada; in the World Solar Challenge events, they race across the Australian outback. The cars can reach speeds up to 50 mph (80 km/h) as they cross the entire continent without using a drop of fuel. But, for the most part, these challenges are only engineering exercises. That is, they’re held simply to learn about various aspects of solar power and car design, not to ready the technology for production.

With gas prices at historic highs in the United States and fuel-efficient cars in vogue, the time might be perfect for DaimlerChrysler to introduce the Smart Car to U.S. markets. Already popular in Europe, the Smart Car is small in stature but big on economy. The updated Smart Fortwo (named because it’s “for two” people) is ready for release in 2008, so we could be seeing a lot more Smart Cars on the road in the near future.

The Smart Car began with Nicolas Hayek, the man who invented Swatch watches. He wanted to make a small car that would be fuel efficient, environmentally responsible and easy to park in small spaces. The Swatch Company collaborated with Daimler-Benz (after a failed venture with Volkswagen) to create the first City Coupe under the company name Micro Compact Car (MCC). Development began in 1994, and the first car was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1997. The MCC went on sale the following year, but Hayek was disappointed with the use of a conventional engine — he’d wanted a hybrid or pure electric motor — and the price of the car, which was higher than expected. When initial sales were slow, Swatch pulled out of the partnership, leaving Daimler-Benz (now DaimlerChrysler) full owner of the Smart division. Today, Smart is part of DaimlerChrysler’s Mercedes group.

When you see the Smart Car, the first thing that you notice is its size. The City Coupe (renamed the “Fortwo” once Smart began releasing other models), is only 8 feet, 2.5 inches long, less than 5 feet wide and about 5 feet tall. (In comparison, the original Hummer H1 is over 7 feet wide.) That means that instead of parallel parking in line with other cars, a Smart Car can back right up to the curb. Two or three Smart Cars can park that way in a single curbside parking space.

In the next sections, we’ll look at what that small size means in terms of safety and gas mileage.

What’s So Smart About It?

The name “Smart” came from a combination of Swatch, Mercedes and the word “art.” The company also markets the cars with the brand and model name in lowercase to emphasize their small size.

Let’s face it. Most of us have a car or truck and we enjoy driving it, especially when it’s shiny and clean. For this reason, car washes have remained popular ever since two Detroit men opened the first one, the Automated Laundry, in 1914. A lot of people wash their own cars at home, but the convenience of an automated car wash and relatively low cost can be hard to beat.

Car washes fall into five categories:

• Self service - An open bay (the area that the car sits inside) is typically used in these systems. Self-service systems have a pressure sprayer, and sometimes a foaming brush, that is connected to a large central pump. The sprayer has a coin-operated dial system to select the option you want, such as “soap,” “rinse” and “wax.” A timer shuts the water off after a certain period of time, at which point you must put in more coins if you want more water.

read more from "A TRIVIA on How Automated Car Wash Work"

Automakers are often inspired by the natural world when naming new vehicles. How many of these auto names do you recognize?

The Barracuda is just one of
many cars that bears the name of an animal.

1. Barracuda (Plymouth)
2. Beetle (Volkswagen)
3. Bison (Chevrolet heavy-duty truck)
4. Blackhawk (Stutz)
5. Bluebird (Nissan/Datsun)
6. Bronco (Ford)
7. Charger (Dodge)
8. Cheetah (rare 1960s high-performance sports car)
9. Cobra (Shelby, Shelby-Ford)
10. Cougar (Mercury)
11. Fox (Audi, Volkswagen)
12. Gazelle (Singer)
13. Honey Bee (Nissan/Datsun)
14. Impala (Chevrolet)
15. Jaguar (outgrowth of S.S. Cars, formerly Swallow Sidecars, Ltd.)
16. Lark (Studebaker)
17. Marlin (AMC)
18. Mustang (Ford)
19. Pinto (Ford)
20. Rabbit (Volkswagen)
21. Ram (Dodge)
22. Road Runner (Plymouth)
23. Sable (Mercury)
24. Skylark (Buick)
25. Spider/Spyder (Porsche)
26. Stag (Triumph)
27. Sting Ray/Stingray (Chevrolet Corvette)
28. Super Bee (Dodge)
29. Thunderbird (Ford)
30. Viper (Dodge)
31. Wasp (Hudson)
32. White Eagle (Kissel)
33. Wildcat (Buick)

The First Automobiles were built in Germany in 1886. Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz separately created their own “horseless carriages” to sell to the public. You may recognize the name Benz from the Mercedes-Benz car in fact, this Mercedes-Benz has an interactive museum where you can see and hear the very first cars! Both Daimler and Benz went on to run their own automobile companies that eventually merged into one company, In 1893,the first cars were displayed in the U.S. at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition. In 1983, Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile, which was very successful in the U.S. We’ve been zooming down the highway ever since!