Smart driving

Reimund, the dad of the family works for Smart... yes, those cute little two door cars that have been in Europe for while, but that have yet to make an appearance in the US (don't worry, the US launch is sometime early 2008, so soon enough, you too can have a Smart Car) ok step aside from the sales pitch, beacuse the exciting news is that i got to drive one!!! Yesterday he had to go to another city for work, so he took a company car, and had it for the night so i got to drive it. Very cool. It's super small on the outside, yet very spacious on the inside, it's like driving half a car though. You wouldn't know it was any different unless you turned around and saw the back wasn't there :-) One of the special things about it is that is is an automatic, but you can also drive it as a manual, except there is no clutch. On this particular model too, there were paddles to change gears on the steering wheel, so you really didn't have to move a whole lot or anything to change gears. It's also a little futuristic looking on the inside, with some random little features. Example: if you have a can of soda and want to cool it down you can pop one of the AC vents ofhte dashboard and set your can in there to cool it down, haha. Well, that's pretty much it. I probably only drove for about 15-20 min, but when else would i have a chance to do it? Of course there was a little photoshoot as I was about to drive...