We are excited to introduce the Target National Smart Car Tour throughout the United States in 2004! In fact, we're looking to hire experienced drivers to participate in the upcoming promotional tour dates in the Los Angeles area this June. Event dates are currently set for Sunday, June 13, Friday June 25 & Saturday June 26th.

We would love to have Smart Car enthusiasts with small vehicle driving experience take part in this unique opportunity. Four (4) drivers are needed for each date to motor the branded Smart ForTwo and Smart ForTwo Cabrios as a unit to create a moving billboard for Target Stores in popular Los Angeles areas. In addition, the Bullseyed Smart Cars will be positioned on-site to support exclusive Target Special Events.

Positions are available for experienced Smart Car drivers for any of the following dates: Sunday, June 13, Friday June 25 & Saturday June 26th
Exact times and locations are to be confirmed, areas may include:
Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood Boulevard, Mann's Chinese Theater, El Capitan, Egyptian Theater, 3rd Street Promenade

Note each day of participation will consist of six hours with payment at $25 per hour. To apply for a position on the crew, please have any interested driver contact sgreanias@legacymp.com to receive a Driver Agreement with tour details and expectations. Thanks! Stacy

 

Hey I'm there! I just sent you an email.

 

Hey Richard! I tried to send you a PM but your box is FULL!

I noticed that you had signed up for the Smart car drive. I was thinking about it too...What day are you going to do? I was shooting for the 26th. I think it would be more fun if we were out with some people we knew.:smile:

I hope all is well and see ya soon!



-Cyn
PS - How's baby?!!!

 

Oh man, I just accidentally erased my message to you. I deleted my PM box. Thanks! Whoops.

I signed up for all the days, since my schedule is pretty open! I'm going to PM you a link to some pics of Lukas. But I'm going to post one here. It's when I told Lukas that this MINI will be his when he's old enough to drive. (he's only 5 weeks) I wonder if the Smart Car is baby friendly????

 

I did this promotion over the Memorial Day weekend.
Great fun and your MINI will seem like a Ferrari Enzo after driving the Smarts.

pics http://megapop.us/MINI/smarts/

ps. I think there is just enough room in the trunk for a baby. No back seats!

 

[QUOTE=OctaneGuy]Oh man, I just accidentally erased my message to you. I deleted my PM box. Thanks! Whoops.

I got your PM, but I just had to post here that he's so cute!

-Cyn

 

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing! Looks like fun! I hope to hear back from someone .

A neighbor of mine had one on loan a few months back. They really are rather tiny. Ought to be an experience!

Looking forward to it!



-Cyn

 

Everyone that has replied to me, I've notified Stacy that you have contacted them. She confirmed she got your info. I've already signed and sent all the paperwork back, so hopefully I'm good to go. We shall see. Lots of fun people are signing up--I've referred atleast 6 people so far.

 

It should be a fun event. Let's hope that we are all selected.

 

I just sent an email, we'll see what happens.


Ryan

 

I applied also. The Smart is one awesome minicar!

 

Today we drove the Smart Cars to the event location, ready for Sunday morning. The Smart Car is a fun car, but there isn't much top end, the seats are marginally comfortable, and the overall build quality is much lower than the MINI. In fact, after being with the Smart Car for a day, my MINI felt both like a luxury and performance car!

I drove a convertible which had a CVT 6 speed. On the freeways, I found putting it in semi automatic mode made the drive much more peppier. In automatic mode it wanted to be in 6th gear or a gear higher than I wanted to be in. In fact, cruising around 60mph, then stepping on the gas, seemed to make the car bog down. So I preferred driving in 5th, so stepping on the gas actually made me accelerate!


Here are some pics from our drive today:








See the rest of the pics at:

http://www.c3club.org/2/details.asp?newsID=24

 

Nice pics. Hope you are having fun driving them, I know I did. You are right about how it feels to get back into the MINI.

They don't actually have CVT transmissions but 6-speed "steptronic" type shifters. (as a CVT owner, I have to keep that straight! )

Did you guys figure out how to get the top and side rails completely off the cabrios? It took us a while to figure it all out since the manuals are in German.

It's an interesting experience wouldn't you say?

 

Thanks! Oh the technical guy said they were cvt. I didn't verify.:smile:

Re: Top rails
yeah it took a little doing, but we got it eventually

re: experience
definitely a worthwhile thing to do, if only to convince myself what a great car the MINI is!!!

Tomorrow is the real event, so we will be mostly acting as guardians, and not driving. It's going to be a long day!

Richard

 

If it was a true CVT, then the RPMs would stay the same accel/dec and there'd be no "gear" feeling as it's basically just one pulley, two cones and an expandable belt. As the two cones move in and out from eachother, they produce an infinite number of "gears" between the cones and pulley. The theory behind the CVTs is cool. Allows you to run the RPMs at max efficiency or a different RPM for max accelleration. Go test drive a Nissan Morano with a CVT for a glimpse at what CVT technology is all about. I wish the CVT "programming" for the MINIs was more like what it was intended to be, rather than the "faked" gears it currently has.

 

Hi Dominic,

I drove white Smart Car, didn't have paddle but others had paddles.
Driving was just like MINI's CVT, just put shifter to drive, hit switch to make it Auto mode, then you can just click to shift up/down.
I felt similar to MINI CVT shifting while driving Smart Car on freeway.
Small gas engine pulls little bugger over 110km on 405 freeway :smile:
Interior was pretty generic, tipical Euro interior. Only complain I had was air was not working, with Red Jumpsuit on it was HOT.

-- Toshi

 

Toshi, I think the Convertibles were stripped down! I didn't have the paddles either! But atleast my AC worked well! Heh heh, you forgot your Octane.

Richard

 

Well Saturday was the last day of the Target Smart Car Tour and it ended at the Los Angeles Film Festival. We had a fantastic crew that worked hard over the past 2 weeks. Thanks to everyone that helped make this a success for both Target and Stacy G. over at Legacy Marketing. I'm so glad I got to participate and help organize.

Pics are posted at my website at:

http://www.c3club.org

Click the article "TARGET IS LOOKING FOR DRIVERS"

Also here's a little snapshot of Friday evening as we drove around Los Angeles. The video has been sped up, and the music is pretty crummy, but the footage looks great! This was shot using my new VacuCam (http://www.Vacucam.com) in a 2 camera configuration.

http://www.littlemini.us/files/smartcars_fast.wmv

 

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HAhaha tahts cool...