Holy crap is that Mustang driver short.

I have a question about Smart cars. I see quite a few of them where I live here in the States, but I thought one of their primary features was that you could pull straight into what would otherwise be a parallel parking spot, yet I never see this done. Is it typically a parking violation to do that? That would be massively convenient if you could.

Seems that smart car would win if it had stabilizers on the back. Looked and sounded like it had to let off the throttle to drop the front back down.

Yeah, he would've had to back off a bit to get the front wheels down, but breaking the supercharger probably didn't help either. I agree that stabilizers would've helped.. wonder why he didn't have them?.

Fake. From what I've gathered from seeing the local Smart cars, they have a top speed of 40mph on the highway.

Easily got my former company's stock Smart car up to 120 kph (75mph) on the highway. A tiny Mercedes. With a battery under the passenger's feet, it is the kind of car you don't call a mechanic for - you call a watchmaker.

They go a good deal quicker when you replace the engine. The other videos I've seen of drag races with smart cars have replaced the (1.0l ~50kW) stock engine with a (1.3l 120kW) Suzuki Hyabusa engine.

This one had a supercharged 1.5l Toyota 5E-FE engine from a Paseo... and while it would only paseo in the original car, it would at least canter in this one, even without the blower... but with the supercharger it ought to at least match the Hyabusa engine and probably do better.

Throw the same money into a base Mustang and you'll get a car that can beat BOTH of those... and most motorcycles under 750cc for that matter.