Smart Fortwo: World's Most Fuel Efficient Drift Car?
2009 Smart ForTwo Cabriolet – Click above for high-res image gallery
Rear-wheel drive, two seats, short wheelbase, sequential manual gearbox, available in either closed-roof or convertible body styles... sounds suspiciously like a sportscar, no? Yet nobody in their right mind would conclude after driving the Smart Fortwo that it is in the least bit sporty. Fuel efficient? Sure. Exciting? Not in the least.
No matter, a well-trained driver can make just about anything on four wheels respond the way in which he pleases. And that includes drifting extraordinaire Sam Hubinette, who tells his fans in a recent blog posting that he's traveling to Spain to film a "pretty intense" car/motorcycle chase scene for an upcoming flick called Night and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Must be nice.
As you've likely surmised by now, Hubinette's chariot for the stunt will be a Smart Fortwo. Hubinette says he's never tried drifting a Smart... maybe the producers will be willing to shell out some of their $130 million budget to put something with a bit more power under the Fortwo's rear bonnet. Nah, probably not. And so we have what may be the World's Most Fuel Efficient Drift Car. Quick – someone better call Guinness.
Gallery: Review: 2009 Smart ForTwo
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
nrb 10:16AM (11/04/2009)
World's dumbest "green" article.
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Bahnburner 10:56AM (11/04/2009)
Uh yeah. Folks have been putting Hayabusa motors in them for about 3 years now and "drifting" like crazy with them...just go to youtube and type in "Hyabusa Smart" and enjoy! BTW, the smart would be a horrible drift car...way too twitchy. More well suited to a chase scene starring inspector Clouseau. However, if the movie features Tom Cruise, you can expect the Smart ForTwo to pull 9 lateral gs and achieve low earth orbit whilst Cruise shoots 450 rounds from his handgun without reloading and simultaneously de-activating some kind of destructive device that will blow up the world, which, by the way, he has never seen previously. This sequence will also stretch the time of six seconds into 25 minutes. NOW THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT.
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ridecolby 11:03AM (11/04/2009)
Maybe Tom will use the smart car to jump over a couch (or a shark LOL)! Now that would entertainment!
GoodCheer 10:53AM (11/04/2009)
I know you guys at ABG don't have time to constantly police the comments section. Would it be possible to set up an automatic system whereby any comment that get 3 (or 5, or N) exclamation marks is automatically removed?
I would like to think we can trust most of the people here not to 'spike' comments when they disagree with the content. Maybe I'm naive.
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nrb 1:41PM (11/04/2009)
The spammer would adjust accordingly. Trying to filter out spam based on straight text matching is a futile effort. If they could implement some kind of heuristics, that might be helpful.
GoodCheer 1:55PM (11/04/2009)
nrb...
I meant the exclamation marks of commenter feedback (in the top right of each comment).
nrb 3:18PM (11/04/2009)
My bad. :)
That's not a bad idea if you also tie to to longevity. If someone's passed a probation period, others couldn't vote their comments into a black hole by hitting the "!". There are people I would like to do that to, but it's not fair.
Carl242 11:56AM (11/04/2009)
Sure you could drift a fortwo. You just have to disable the ESP
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Bahnburner 2:13PM (11/04/2009)
I think they mean on "dry, unfrozen" pavement.
Jim Corteau 3:11AM (11/05/2009)
I've drifted a Saturn Coupe... and that comes damn close to matching the ForTwo in efficiency.
**Ok, so it was in the rain.
And there were people in the back seat, making it tail heavy.
But still, I drifted a 40 MPG car**
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vwboyaf1 6:23AM (11/05/2009)
I'm pretty sure that the original AE86 was more fuel efficient than this. The tesla has it beat out right. The smart is not green. It is however silly looking, and since it can only fit 2 people, is less efficient and less capable than my toyota hilux surf TD.
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brian 2:14PM (11/22/2009)
The car in question is actually a roadster and not a Fourtwo and is powered by a GSXR1000 K4 engine (it fits much better than a Hayabusa)...
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