What's so smart about a smart car anyway? It's only a golf kart with a windscreen for people who act smug and pretend to care about the environment. And while Daimler does make an EV version of the car, it's still too mainstream for a true hipster, plus that electricity still has to come from somewhere.
How about a smart that runs on hot wind then? It's renewable and extremely funny… in a tongue in cheek way that might offend some people. OK, it will offend quite a lot of people, but that doesn't mean it isn't funny.
This smart car is the perfect vehicle because, as we all know, they like to drive slowly and have a lot of… well, you get the idea. If they buy it and grow beans in the garden, their pension money could probably stretch to include bingo every night and a visit to Las Vegas for a Tita Turner concert.
But seriously, there's a bit of method to all this joking madness. Cow backsides are supposedly a big problem for our ozone layer. Their greenhouse gas impact is huge, as the methane produced in their stomachs is hurting mother earth. Believe it or not, methane is supposedly 23 times more dangerous than carbon dioxide, so the next time an ecomentalist points at your exhaust pipe just tell him about cows and he'll let you off the hook.
Agriculture accounts for about a sixth of greenhouse gasses at the moment. Experts say that an average cow makes somewhere between 100 liter and 500 liters (26 to 132 gallons) of methane per day. There's about 1.5 billion of them in the world, so imagine how much fuel we could get from our hamburger meat.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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