Adrian

first of 4 commercials for the Nintendo Wii, featuring the smart car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S167KGmptEg I'm picking mine up this sunday, hopefully they don't sell out.

you might want to see if you can get your car reflashed at the dealer. there was a software update a while back that helped a lot of cars including mine. It now pumps cold air even when the car is at idle...there was a long thread discussing the reflash.

the cabrio is great! you can fit tall things in the back that don't normally "fit" having the roof open, driving on a warm summer evening is the best feeling. --the only gripe I have is the rear plastic window, it can be hard to keep clean at times

yeah, looks great! perhaps a silver front spoiler is in the works too?

I don't know, for me I would match it with the green panels...this particular spoiler doesn't really match the lines of the tridion, whereas the brabus spoiler does follow at the same level...its up to you, and it also depends if you're going to think of switching panels in the future.

I know that beeping occurs regardless of DRLs being enabled/disabled, so it shouldn't be that problem.

Thanks Dean for keeping the server in tip top shape. I can't imagine running it day to day, but restoring the backups must be even more hard work. Thanks for all your hard work!

ah, too bad I missed you there Mike, when were you over there? I was at the autoshow and drive on Saturday. I hardly call the R-class a shuttle but it was a great ride to there. The easypark lot beside it was broken so we got free parking as well. There wasn't really a lot of people there. Test drove the B, I like it a lot, got some tire screeching sounds . Its nice to go from an M to a R and then to a B and finally to the smart again haha.

I had a flat tire as well this week. Is it flat tire season or something? It was probably a slow leak and I was stupid enough not to check my car before heading out monday morning. I was rushing to school and did not even check anything. I think I drove probably halfway before someone actually told me I had a flat. I didn't even notice anything strange or anything, no indication that I had a flat. I think I was driving flat the whole way. Luckily when someone alerted me, I was 2 blocks away from the Broadway MB dealer, drove it there and had them check it out. Claire was great, they couldn't find a tire so she offered to drive me up to UBC. The tire is toast and I'm waiting for a tire now .

just as an update, I emailed the mayor with no reply back from him or his assistant at all... I emailed ctv about doing a follow up story and no one was interested either I ended up paying the ticket, because back then I didn't have time to set up court date etc and I just decided to pay it, but good luck george! let us know what happens.

wow i'm surprised the locals weren't a bit scared to come up so close? I guess they've been well acquainted with us people

LOL i remember those guys...sigh, sesame street was great...now it's sesame park

Sorry to hear about the accident Bud, hope you're feeling a lot better now...and with the loaner coming in?! wow, that's great! Thanks for the photos too, looks like the Kia took quite a beating from Stag

I know! everytime I do a mod, I get so worked up at finishing it I forget to take pictures as well. oh well. If those plastic rivet things are what I think you're talking about, they're on most of the car I think...the mudflaps, and the rear heatshield have them as well.

don't the new toyota hybrids come with something like a crazy 10 year warranty on the battery? and about realiability, a lot of the yellow cabs in vancouver have been driving the prius' for a while now with no apparent problems yet...which should say something at least, since taxis are driven so many km's/day

thanks for the update fred, sorry I haven't been emailing you my figures, its been so nice out I've been always out and about without a care about fuel economy haha.

the front spoiler looks great! was it hard to put on? hmm now you've got me thinking of getting the spoiler

is that a z600? everyone should have their smart car on their phone hmm when did sonyericsson become more popular than nokia? I remember way back when everyone had their 61xx , 51xx and 33xx serie nokia phones here's mine:

I voted for C as well because I usually park to the situation and follow the other car's mirrors to match them. If I park to front or back people usually hit my side mirrors if I don't match with their car before my mirror caps, I already had some bumps because people opened them doors too fast

whew, so nothing to worry about right? just the rubber? scared me for a while as I read this thread from the beginning

great thanks! I emailed them awhile ago with no reply back...do they not check their email? maybe they get too many emails here is the direct pdf application form: http://www.easyparkvancouver.com/pdfs/Easy...Application.pdf

congrats! and I agree white gloves are a must...don't want to spoil that leather wrapped steering wheel

lol, looks great, I haven't brought the car to costco yet because I feared buying too many things and not being able to fit it all, but man that's a lot of stuff

my vote as well

I believe you can replace them with the duracell/energizer type Nimh rechargeables because they're virtually no different than the ones you have now and the alkaline batteries. I like this format because if your radios dead and you really need to use it you can still go out and buy some alkalines virtually anywhere.