VIDEO: Double-decker smart fortwo a little top-heavy
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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.
[Source: CarScoop]
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dildomassive 6:09PM (4/01/2008)
Slow news day? this is like 100 years old already, come on autoblog!
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Mark 6:57PM (4/01/2008)
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 7:43PM (4/01/2008)
And some of us also torrent one particular car series....dofus.
fm 7:49PM (4/01/2008)
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 6:11PM (4/01/2008)
I'd pee in the top car's tailpipe.
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Jvijil 6:15PM (4/01/2008)
LMFAO
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SPG 6:16PM (4/01/2008)
That was a fun distraction.
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CarbonBlack 6:46PM (4/01/2008)
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!
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kyle 9:11PM (4/01/2008)
don't be silly. four high would be unsafe. you just need two of those "i" cars.
Terbo 6:50PM (4/01/2008)
This seems like the type of thing that Top Gear would do.. More Rivalry?
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Egon 8:25AM (4/02/2008)
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 6:55PM (4/01/2008)
My God, You built an SUV complete with rollover instability
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FURYk 7:06PM (4/01/2008)
that was awesome, how about some training wheels on the sides and your good to go
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studemax 7:19PM (4/01/2008)
Would wider tires help?
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Fooman 7:42PM (4/01/2008)
actually it was more stable then I thought it would be.
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spanner 7:56PM (4/01/2008)
Im happy with that... two less of those little piles of crap on our roads the better!
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Benfolio 9:55PM (4/01/2008)
Joie Chitwood he ain't......
Looks deliberate, he was countersteering WAAYYYY too late.
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May 2:00AM (4/02/2008)
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!
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