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**beefers1** · 02-21-2008, 09:01 PM

But the main point here is that they're getting more powerful as well. So why not tune down the engine, 70hp is a good place?

PS The Smart Fortwo has been in the European market since 1998, and launched in Canada in 2004. They have a 1.0 l3 engine rated at 70hp @ 5800.

PPS On NHTSA crash tests, the Metro got a 3 star racing on front impact driver safety and 4 stars on passenger safety. Pretty decent for such a small car.

PPPS subcompacts now would be compacts back then. And we hardy have any superminis around. (Mini Cooper could be one, but later models are quite powerful, and get only around 30MPG. Smart Fortwo. And that's pretty much it. They had much more subcompacts than we have superminis).

02-21-2008, 09:01 PM	#5 (permalink)
beefers1 Below is my avatar Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Greater Vancouver area, BC, Canada Posts: 4,031 OS: Win XP Pro SP2 My System Blog Entries: 13	Re: Compact cars getting bigger But the main point here is that they're getting more powerful as well. So why not tune down the engine, 70hp is a good place? PS The Smart Fortwo has been in the European market since 1998, and launched in Canada in 2004. They have a 1.0 l3 engine rated at 70hp @ 5800. PPS On NHTSA crash tests, the Metro got a 3 star racing on front impact driver safety and 4 stars on passenger safety. Pretty decent for such a small car. PPPS subcompacts now would be compacts back then. And we hardy have any superminis around. (Mini Cooper could be one, but later models are quite powerful, and get only around 30MPG. Smart Fortwo. And that's pretty much it. They had much more subcompacts than we have superminis). __________________ Last edited by beefers1; 02-21-2008 at 09:05 PM.