Smart total electric for lease in Tulsa

[tulsacarman]

The Tulsa World ran an article the other day about the newly available Smart electric car. The Smart car dealer is now offering the converted Smart car that gets 87 miles to the gallon and travels 84 miles on a 3 1/2 hour charge.

They are leasing them for $599.00 a month for 4 years terms. Even at $3.00/ gallon thats 200 gallons of gas you'd have to save to justify the lease. I can travel 8000 miles at 40 miles per gallon and I can fuel to full in 1 minute tops.

SMART??

Oh, I forgot, they come with an exclusive green accent color to show how much you care about the environment.

I had originally thought of using SMARTER on my custom tag but rejected it since it might come off wrong and most would probably not understand what it really meant.

[anomoly40]

You can get a silhouette of a smart with a "x" over it and have "SMARTer" underneath it. I plan in doing that soon.

[freshtiva]

My Smart car

[neanderpaul]

You can get a silhouette of a smart with a "x" over it and have "SMARTer" underneath it. I plan in doing that soon.

Could start with one of these maybe...

http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/forums/f4/new-custom-smart-keychain-v-2-0-a-24499/index3.html

[neanderpaul]

I just knocked this out in MSpaint

[Damkid]

My parents used to have an 06' diesel smart car (not available in the states) and my dad would average 70mpg with the summer tires and only 50mpg with the winter tires on it, the toyota Yarisl gets 50mpg and it seats 4, the smart car is not really practical and the servicing is supposed to be done at a Mercedes dealer, so servicing was expensive

So bottom line is the money you'd save on fuel with a smart car, you need to put towards paying for it and maintaining it, they are just not worth the money and festiva's are more superior as far as cheap overall transportation

[JPT]

I just knocked this out in MSpaint

That is good, but how about "Festiva. The Smarter Car"?

[neanderpaul]

The idea is that you put that on your festiva. The sticker then means the smart car is not smart the festiva is smarter.

[JPT]

^ Oh, I get now.

[neanderpaul]

[tulsacarman]

My parents used to have an 06' diesel smart car (not available in the states) and my dad would average 70mpg with the summer tires and only 50mpg with the winter tires on it, the toyota Yarisl gets 50mpg and it seats 4, the smart car is not really practical and the servicing is supposed to be done at a Mercedes dealer, so servicing was expensive

So bottom line is the money you'd save on fuel with a smart car, you need to put towards paying for it and maintaining it, they are just not worth the money and festiva's are more superior as far as cheap overall transportation

I still remember before I bought my first car that my dad taught me there were many things to consider when choosing a vehicle. He showed me all the different costs associated with driving his car at the time including, fuel, insurance, service costs and more. He went through all these things and showed me how much it actually cost him to drive each mile.

It just seemed funny to me that the electric Smart car folks will be paying $599 per month lease fee plus $90.00 per month "fuel" cost. Assuming they drive one full charge per day (90 miles?) in a 30 day month they would be paying 25 cents per mile to drive. My Festy, traveling the same number of miles at 40 MPG would cost me 7 1/2 cents per mile to own and drive. I don't have to visit Der mechanic either.

I imagine most people that lease one of those things will average between 50% and 75% of max range each day which would end up increasing their ownership and "fuel" costs to 50 cents per mile or more. Would a taxi be more cost effective?

[JPT]

^ That doesn't sound too "Smart" to me. :smile:

[JPT]

...It just seemed funny to me that the electric Smart car folks will be paying $599 per month lease fee plus $90.00 per month "fuel" cost. Assuming they drive one full charge per day (90 miles?) in a 30 day month they would be paying 25 cents per mile to drive.

...I imagine most people that lease one of those things will average between 50% and 75% of max range each day which would end up increasing their ownership and "fuel" costs to 50 cents per mile or more.

^ That doesn't sound too "Smart" to me. :icon_smile:

I'd lease something small and fuel efficient for waaaay less than $599 a month and keep the extra money.

[tulsacarman]

^ That doesn't sound too "Smart" to me. :icon_smile:

I'd lease something small and fuel efficient for waaaay less than $599 a month and keep the extra money.

Yeah, but to be fair, aren't those things soooo blasted cute?

[Damkid]

^^i think they are ugly lol