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Finkenbusch: It's pretty obvious that you like Mercedes and don't like Tesla which is fine, it's your opinion and anything I say wont change that.
Still the world isn't really that black and white. I might add that Mercedes themselves had serious problems making a good gearbox for their own Smart. And their gen 1 car when launched in the US, there were lots of complaints about the gearbox. And now we are talking a completely off the shelf standard small gasoline car, with Mercedes R&D behind it. If they obviously can't make decent gearbox for a crappy car like the Smart you might want to cut Tesla with their 13000rpm 2-gear box some slack.
While you got my riled up, what is it with the Smart ForTwo anyway (the Smart Roadster is great). I can understand its value in the US where you can't get 1.0 L engines at all and even smaller cars are big. But in Europe, it is too expensive and driving is a lot inspiring compared to the Mini. It is too expensive and a lot less practical than a simple VW Polo or Peugot 107 or a bunch of other 4-5 seat small cars. It's too big to legally park perpendicular and compared to much bigger cars like the Polo it uses a LOT of gasoline so it's not even a frugal car. As for the SmartEV, I might add Think will have produced about 20000 Think City's by the time Mercedes is finished with their evaluation phase. I fail to see how the Smart EV is any better than the Think City? Of course I am a Norwegian so that might color my views a bit :)
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