Alkiro1
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Really interesting experience. In my opinion, Smart was pioneer in its marketing approach at the beginning of the story but I think the main spirit left the company when Hayek decided to stop the adventure no?
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Alkiro
Singapore Supercar Vending Machine
Perhaps already discussed here, but Singapore hosts a 15-story building supercar "vending machine" housing up to 60 cars. Not sure if these first photos of the building from the outside represent the actual cars, or are photoshopped (they look rather matc...
My thought as well
I worked on designing the parts catalogs and service labor time books for the very first Smart cars, and we got tours of the prototype car towers, as well as a couple cars. That was about 20 years ago, I think. Cazalea
They had high aspirations that were crushed by the reality of the automotive market
Yes, the direction from the top stopped (creative, innovative, customizable, etc) but the reality of making money eventually had to come in or the company would have been liquidated. Our project was to create a database of every part for every single car ...
I like it except for one small detail.
Mediocre! It's definitely a cool concept, but what I really dislike is this particular automated parking system that they use. The automated parking system that they use specifically has the tires resting on a few bars with gaps between the bars. This mea...
Interesting. I wonder what the long- or intermediate-term effects would be on the tires.
Perhaps if the cards are driven enough, the effects would be negligible; moreover, although these are high-performance sports cars, I suspect their actual use would be to cruise the streets of Singapore well within the speed limits, which is to say that t...
This building is located in an industrial area and not the typical car showroom area.
Their primary concern was more on housing 60 over cars at the same time in a building. They are not the official agents for the luxury cars like Ferrari etc. More details here There's another more fancy condo in town where u can have ur Ferrari parked ou...
Yeah, I read about that condo...
I remember that condo. Not sure I like that concept. Even having an artistic car, that's still a little unusual. Even as a car person, I'm not sure I'd want a dirty car there. But I do like the concept that I can get my groceries out of my boot easily. If...
Well it's a fancy place
One unit is easily 8-9 million. Those that stay on there probably don't have to worry about getting their cars or house dirty. Cheers PAt