Re: alfa-digest V8 #195

[Alex Rodriguez <sicar@domain.elided>]

I was in Switzerland two weeks ago and I got a good close up look at the
Smart car.  I can see no way that this vehicle can pass US crash standards.
There is no room to put in a crumble zone.  While I was in Switzerland I was
happy to see that Alfa's are relatively popular.  I saw a couple of Milanos,
a bit more 164's and lots of the newer models.  The small hatch back/station
wagon model was quite common.


At 10:16 PM 10/31/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:37:37 -0800
>From: Michael Williams <alfanut@domain.elided>
>Subject: grey market
>
>Charlie wrote:
>There is a famous. Woman who hosts a news or talk show on US TV (I don't
>recall her name) who finally was able to bring in a "cute" Smart.
>
>That was Sally Jessy Raphael. She did indeed bring one in. I talked to several
>  shops that do conversions and they said the Smart car would be very hard 
> to do
>  asd a one-off as it is not OBD compliant or something...
>
>Our club got a letter from a gent in LA saying he can import Alfas to US....
>
>Dr. Maurizio Floria says he has a 166 2.5 V6 here to check out and that he can
>  bring in 1998 through 2000 156 or 166. Sounds like a duck.
>
>- --
>Michael Williams
>Sacramento, CA, USA
>
>69 Duetto
>73 Berlina (Fiat 124 Special)
>84 GTV6

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