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SmartCars Take Over San Francisco’s Lombard Street
TweetIt was on this morning at the OFFICIAL 2008 NorCal Region SMART RALLY & Lombard St. Photoshoot in San Francisco. The whole thing was just like critical mass, but for cars instead of bikes. How...
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The Reason Why San Francisco Loves the ForTwo Smart Car: Easy Parking
TweetEven a Mini Cooper would have trouble parallel parking in this space, but a red fortwo from smart had no trouble at all. Now the driver has full access to the Clement street shopping district. And...
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Photos of the 2009 San Francisco International Auto Show at Moscone Center
TweetThe 52nd Annual San Francisco International Auto Show continues ’til Wednesday, December 2nd down at Moscone Center. It’s eight bucks, why not check it out? The joint is sponsored by the San...
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Small Gift Tour – Sanrio Pop-Up Stores Coming to Town this Weekend – Wrap...
TweetSanrio’s Pop Up Tour is coming to San Francisco October 23-24, 2010, so soon you’ll be able to get iPhone covers (3rd and 4th generation only) for $40 ‘n stuff. And, whether you attend the tour or...
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How Many Large Dogs Can Fit in the Back of a Two-Seater SmartCar? How About...
TweetSnug as a bug in a rug, don’t you think? Click to expand Oh, here’s how other people carry their dogs around in Smarts. (And thank goodness the practice of Smart-tipping hasn’t taken off on the...
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Look at That S-Car Go! Forget About the SmartCar, You Need a Four-Seat 2012...
Tweet[UPDATE: Oh, San Francisco Toyota / San Francisco Scion has a clip from Golden Gate Park.] All I know about the new 2012 Scion IQ is that it’s a total chick-magnet, and that it’s so small it’s...
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The Worst Parkers in San Francisco are the Owners of SmartCars – Why? Their...
TweetThese new SmartCars are parked willy-nilly all over town these days, on the sidewalks, in red zones, wherever. Why? It’s ’cause some of the drivers of these vehicles think , “I can park anywhere!”...
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Does Your Smart Car Have a Pair of Six-inch Long Eyelashes? If Not, Why Not?
TweetThis is the first I’ve seen of this: Click to expand (Well, 5,000,000 hits for car eyelashes shows that I need to get out and experience the world more.)
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Smart Car and VW Somehow Share a Parking Space in the Financial District –...
TweetI don’t know how this happened but here you can see two cars sharing a metered space meant for just one car. When the meter expires, which car should get the ticket from DPT? Click to expand Oh, I...
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Fake San Francisco Transit: SHORT BUS vs. SCHOL BUS – Smart Car ForTwo vs....
TweetAll right now, class. Which bus is the girl bus? As seen in the Western Addition: And which is the boy bus? As seen on Polk near the former German Embassy / controversial cooking school in the...
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Presenting “adverCar”– A Way to Make $100 a Month with Your Ride –...
TweetSort of. First up is adverCar - all the stickers north of the bumpers earn the owner of the Smart Car $100 a month or so. Do I object to the sticker covering part of the back window? Yes. Yes I...
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And San Francisco’s Worst Parkers are the Drivers of … Smart Cars – Here’s...
TweetWhen Smart Cars started showing up in the 415, what I thought we’d see was: 1. Smart Car tipping (Naughty naughty!); and 2. French-style, nose-to-the-curb parking But what we’ve gotten is just bad...
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Seen on the Street: If Your San Francisco Parking Space is Only Ten Feet...
TweetSomething like this, a SmartCar with its rear end NOT jutting over the sidewalk. I applaud this homeowner: Click to expand And the result that this ride is well-protected from those gangs of...
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An Update on CAR2GO Car Sharing in SF: The Giant FREE PARKING Logos are Gone
TweetRead all about it. So how does this work, you see a car and then you use it to get wherever and then you park it legally and then you’re done with it? Mmm… As seen on Fell in December 2014: All...
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The Problem with Thinking That You Can Park Your SmartCar “Anywhere” in SF is...
TweetHere’s what westside denizen James Corrigan saw the other day – yet another SmartCar with a Denver Boot on the front left wheel: What this means is that the owner let at least five parking tickets...
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Usually People Get a Car and Then Find a Parking Space, But in Frisco You Get...
TweetThusly: A SmartCar Four-Two and its four-seat doppelganger, the Toyota Scion iQ - these are the cars to get after you secretly pave over your front lawn, you know, hoping nobody notices…
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ASFNATV Is, As Typical, FAR TOO EXCITED About Having Been Born in San...
TweetThe antidote to the “born and raised” crowd is the phrase Frisco. Oh, you Nativists don’t like Frisco? All right, well I don’t like the mentality behind “born and raised” and ASFNATV, how’s that?...
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Is This SmartCar Illegally Parked Perpendicularly or Is It Legally Parked in...
TweetI think it’s illegally parked on public property, but IDK
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America Rejects Toyota’s Smallest Car – Scion IQ had 11 Airbags, 4 Seats,...
TweetFour seats, sure, but they marketed it as a “3+1,” ’cause the seat behind the driver had no legroom, assuming the driver wasn’t able to scrunch forward. But the front passenger had plenty of room,...
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It’s Official: The SFMTA’s Rental Car Partner “Getaround” has Turned One...
TweetSmart Cars sure are short, huh? This looks like Gay Paree, except our version of the Smartcar Four-Two is actually a little longer than what those Europeans use. Anyway, I don’t know how workable...
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