[ZiGeNX77]

SMART Car Vending Machine Only Dispenses Marketing Materials, False Hope







Here I was, credit card in hand, ready to fly across the Pacific and purchase my very first SMART Car from a vending machine, when I'm told it's just some advertisement. Sure, SMART Cars can't float (they can barely survive the SUV-congested streets of the U.S.), and the Japanese steer on the opposite side of their automobiles than us Yanks, but this was the promise of a car via a vending machine. I would have figured out a way to bring it home and make it work. To paraphrase the late, great comedian Mitch Hedberg, things are just better when they fall.

Original article: here

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Gotta love Japan.

[kelvin6]

Here is a more or less of a real SmartCar Dispenser:



Imagine paying the money and it gets stuck in the machine... tilt and rock it out lol! Pray it doesn't tip over.

[Atmosphere.]

lol wow what a great idea whoever thought about it though, but that's a lot of work to do o__O;; lots of electricity, why just place paper next to car o__o;; lol ^^;; oh wells it is japan after all!

[Xiaoba1tu]

I love the Smartcar coupe, it's cute! ^ ^
That's a creative idea for an advertisement.

[ZiGeNX77]

Yeah it is guerella marketing. The machine vends brochures. What a sweet... er smart idea.

[LaydeeMel]

It would be kinda cool to actually have the machine vend out a car ...

[sayohsin]

wow.. this makes me wanna go to japan

[chicanerist]

It didn't look right when I saw this fat guy driving this tiny thing around school the other day.

[random_girl]

i want one soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad =D