Erik

I never said NYC was enough to support a car company - I did say that I don't understand why everyone focuses on MPG when that's not the point of the car.

It's like saying the Chevy Volt is terrible because I can't fit a 65" LCD tv in the trunk from Best Buy - that's not what the vehicle was designed for.

The Smart car is not for everyone - I have no idea why it was even marketed outside major cities or the suburbs surrounding it. It has a single pupose, and when used for that purpose, it's an amazing car. Park it anywhere - no other car is like it (Prius, Yaris, etc) when it comes to parking.

This never should have been a Penske deal - should be sold through MB dealers - low volume. Add it to the deliveries of MBs every month. Done and Done.

It's amazing how people keep missing the point of the Smart car - it's not MPGs, it's parking. Pure and simple. Saving $40-50 per day in NYC parking garages. On the rare occation you can't find a spot - ICON Parking has a 50% Smart car discount -

Let's call it $35/day * 260 work days/year = $9,100 savings

In less than 2 years, the car pays for itself.

1,000,000 / 4 (years) = 250,000 miles / year

250,000 / 365 (days per year) = 684.9315068493151 miles per day (call it 685)

685 miles per day at avg 60 MPH = 11.41 hours per day

Certainly possible for a single driver.

I guess I'm one of those 825 - we had sirius backseat TV on our 2008 T&C - 3 channels - nothing campared to FloTV in our 2010 T&C.

I would much rather them extend the service.

If the service is canceled, we would invest in Sirius again - the DVD thing, over and over, is annoying to listen to. At least the TV is variety.

I'm on my second Chrysler T&C (2008 and 2010) and they are by far some of the best vehicles I've ever owned.

3 Screens - 2 DVD Players, FLO TV, Navigation, Bluetooth, Hard Drive Music/Pictures, Dual Power Sliding Doors - 4 Heated Captains Chairs - 3 Zone A/C - Electrical Outlet for Laptop - about a million cup-holders...it's a mobile command unit.

I looked at everything before getting it (from the Kia to the Mercedes R), nothing could compete with the features for the price and it's been very reliable.

This is a very difficult job as the paint on the F40 was never wonderful to start with and was thinner at points. You need to be super careful.

Yes, the $400 Dell does come with a monitor - on Black Friday '09 we picked up a dozen $329 Dell's with 18" LCD screens. Right now (at a quick glance) I see Dell Business selling a Vostro 230 with 18" LCD, 2GB RAM and C2D for $459. If you look around, I'm sure you'll find a Dell that's right at the $400 mark with a monitor.

Mitch - $300 will get you 2-3 hours of flight time (with an instructor) tops. Nowhere near a license. That logic may work for Rock Band or Guitar Hero, but not for flying.

CarrotAndStick - Checkout Sony Navitus universal remote. Tactile feedback is unreal, you never had to look on the screen to know where the bottons were.

I thought maybe he was able to get the older PSP to run Skype, but it didn't show up on my system, so I guess not.