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The Smart fortwo is an adorable little transportation pod that can get two people wherever they care to go in style, but there are a lot of cheap, efficient four-seaters with more room for people and their stuff. The auto enthusiasts over at 5th Gear rectified the fortwo's apparent disadvantage by creating a smart double decker using four bolts to attach the roof of one car to the floor of another. The experiment is ridiculous enough on its own, but 5th Gear brought it over the top by putting the fortwo+two through a battery of tests versus a four-seat Mitsubishi i. Watching stacked Smart cars doing moose avoidance tests at 40 mph is hilarious, and at 50 mph, you can probably guess what happens. Hit the jump to watch the video.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dildomassive @ Apr 1st 2008 6:09PM
Slow news day? this is like 100 years old already, come on autoblog!
Mark @ Apr 1st 2008 6:57PM
Some of us only go to one news site (autoblog)... doofus.
I enjoy old news if I haven't seen it, especially if it is funny old news. Why don't you just skip over stuff you have already seen?
catgirlshyla @ Apr 1st 2008 7:43PM
And some of us also torrent one particular car series....dofus.
fm @ Apr 1st 2008 7:49PM
I've got to go with catgirlshyla, although I'll forgo the name calling. Some of us do torrent the show thus this IS really old. Atleast from last year.
Chris @ Apr 1st 2008 6:11PM
I'd pee in the top car's tailpipe.
Jvijil @ Apr 1st 2008 6:15PM
LMFAO
SPG @ Apr 1st 2008 6:16PM
That was a fun distraction.
CarbonBlack @ Apr 1st 2008 6:46PM
My family is in the market for a vehicle that holds at least 7.
I reckon we found what we are looking for!
We just need 4 smarts and 16 bolts:I call top!
kyle @ Apr 1st 2008 9:11PM
don't be silly. four high would be unsafe. you just need two of those "i" cars.
Terbo @ Apr 1st 2008 6:50PM
This seems like the type of thing that Top Gear would do.. More Rivalry?
Egon @ Apr 2nd 2008 8:25AM
That looks like the sort of think that the US-spec Top Gear might try to do. Kinda funny, kinda lame. I'm sure some writer at NBC was taking notes.
lad @ Apr 1st 2008 6:55PM
My God, You built an SUV complete with rollover instability
FURYk @ Apr 1st 2008 7:06PM
that was awesome, how about some training wheels on the sides and your good to go
studemax @ Apr 1st 2008 7:19PM
Would wider tires help?
Fooman @ Apr 1st 2008 7:42PM
actually it was more stable then I thought it would be.
spanner @ Apr 1st 2008 7:56PM
Im happy with that... two less of those little piles of crap on our roads the better!
Benfolio @ Apr 1st 2008 9:55PM
Joie Chitwood he ain't......
Looks deliberate, he was countersteering WAAYYYY too late.
May @ Apr 2nd 2008 2:00AM
I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the end of the video when he did the stability test.....the first thing that came to my mind was "Oh gosh, is it stable enough to drive!!!"
Other than that, it's pretty innovative albeit risky!
Good view though! hahaha!