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Any Truth in the Rumour?


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Posted 23 November 2004 - 08:07 PM

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That the intitial batch of Smart's are old stock that have been sitting
for a year?

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 01:40 AM

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open ur mind la 440ci

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 01:28 PM

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i don't know if its old stock but this car have been around for years.
Their spanky new showroom is at Menara Tan & Tan, Jln Tun Razak.

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 02:03 PM

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Is this car power by petrol or batterry?

If it is petrol, nothing special, why so expensive?

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 07:28 PM

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Petrol. Expensive on the pretense that Benz and their derivatives deserves
a higher price, which they do not.

Smart sales are pretty brisk in Europe because of taxtion reasons so i'd
be surprise if they can store units long enough to become "old" but i
suppose it depends on what they shipped to Asia as a whole over the last
couple of years.

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 07:40 PM

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jeremylj >>open ur mind la 440ci<<


*****???

What happened to the 200 Smart's imported nearly a year ago? How come
these cars are so cheap?

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Posted 24 November 2004 - 10:34 PM

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advertise mah. so at first batch sale cheap cheap to test market. but
still got profit la.

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Posted 25 November 2004 - 03:59 PM

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A bit steep for such a small car, but I had a chance to view and inspect
one last night at the Jln P Ramlee branch.

I've got their catalogue (best car brochure/catalogue thus far - so many
options) and I have to admit, in terms of the quality .. wow! Safety ..
wow! Viability (in terms of city use) .. wow! And price ... OOOOUCH!

Not too sure abt this rumour thingy but from what I was told, they only
had the Cabrio batches for now. The pulse and Passion will only come in
next month or so. In fact, this car is so new to our market, non of the
sales execs (inclusive of the manager) was able to answer 2/3 of my
questions - Hell, I still dun know where the battery is located.

Definitely not to be used as a first car, but if you have the cash, well,
why not?

One thing is for sure, a lot of my work koliks who heard abt my interest
for the Passion fortwo tot I was really going to buy her. Hint - it's a
babe magnet wor Wink

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Posted 25 November 2004 - 08:14 PM

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Guys,

To me,the price isn't so reasonable,but i think this car can sell well to
yuppies.

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Posted 26 November 2004 - 09:17 AM

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guys,

about the rumours, i am not sure. Check out the crash test for this little
baby:

http://www.euroncap....hp?id1=1&id2=69
http://www.euroncap....hp?id1=1&id2=29

Ryoga, the battery is below the driver seat and the radiator is at the
rear. This car is meant for those RM (= rich man).

Yeap!! This car is really babe magnet. I drove it once to Bangsar Telawi.
I just parked beside The Roof, have babes came and ask me to wind down the
window and chatted with them. Can you imagine that. Those babe are not bad
either.


innocent
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