Smart cars - good for fuel efficiency, bad for hauling sh*t.....

[marmar]

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Maybe a Smart car with the optional Towing Package

I've used a sunroof as a way to haul pipes. It works, but what a pain.

:hi:

[alphafemale]

2. I'm more concerned over what looks like a mattress held down with a single strand of clothesline.

I've seen a few mattress wings in their brief dramatic flights over the highway.

[kentauros]

3. That's the kind of thing I hate the most about anyone hauling something:

Unsecured Load!

You'd think that most cities would cite more people for that. Houston could make up for the millions "lost" when they turned off the red-light cameras recently. I guess avoiding running over someone's lost furniture isn't a priority for road-safety enforcement...

[alphafemale]

4. I always get around those do-it-yourself movers as quickly as possible.

And don't even get me started about the home-made rinky-dink trailers. How they allow those things are legal on the street to be hauled down the freeway at 60+ is a mystery to me.

[Shagbark Hickory]

6. The best place to get free furniture is about 1km down from Ikea along the roadside

:+

[iris27]

5. Yeah, any car too small to carry a donut spare is too small for me. We looked at Smarts last year

while car shopping, but I would not be comfortable driving around in a car that only had (literally) a fix-a-flat kit. We ended up with an Insight...which I used earlier this year to haul about as much wood as pictured above back to the hardware store.

[brendan120678]

7. Yikes...I do not want to be following that car.

However, I am reminded of my VW New Beetle I had in college. When you put the rear seats down flat, it actually had a lot of cargo space, thanks to its shape.

[IDemo]

8. They can haul a$$ on occasion -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV4HdsDZX6c

[rurallib]

9. does he strap this on his back to lug it home?

[flvegan]

10. Dreadful little cars built for idiots.

[mucifer]

11. my prius is almost as big as a camry and has better mileage

than the smart car. Yes the smart car is much cheaper. But well you know.

[BiggJawn]

12. Everything old is New again...