Smart Car Spotted

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Someone at the Ronkonkoma train station has a Smart Car.  Want.

I saw this parked at the station this morning and had no idea Smart had made it to the U.S. until I saw it.  Looks like Mercedes-Benz of Smithtown is the one importing them.

A stripped-down one runs $11,590 base price.  Tack on $5K if you want a convertible, which I would if I were to get one.

According to How Stuff Works, gas mileage is anywhere between 46.3 (city) and 68.9 (highway).  The train station is 3 miles from my home.  Let's call that 50 MPG just to make the math easy.  My truck gets 10 MPG.  Assuming gas costs $3.50 a gallon, I'd be saving $3.36/day on gas.  It sounds like it would be a lot, but it would take almost nine and a half years to pay for the base model Smart with fuel savings.

Still, a convertible would be fun.

Note to Fox

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I don't care how popular NASCAR gets.  When the Red Sox lead the Yankees 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, you FINISH OUT THE GAME.  You DON'T kick baseball fans over to FX.  Some of us have never watched a damned thing on FX and have no fricking idea where it is in the channel lineup. In fact, some of us were unable to locate FX until after the game ended.  And some of us nearly put a remote through the damned screen.