"Smart" Cars

Mercedes-Benz has been bringing their co-brand Smart cars to North America, and I have heard that the base price is in the $26000 (CAD) range. Who would buy this crap? It is smaller than a Geo (in my opinion one of the worst cars around) and it is more expensive than some of the decent/good new cars on the road (not to mention what you can get used for that much coin). Furthermore it looks like crap, it’s not the worst looking car out there but it is in contention. But the biggest problem is the fact that these awesome new cars which pride themselves in safety are good in Europe, but with the high population of SUV’s in North America it can’t be that safe, lets say you are driving one of those things and you have a little collision with a H2 – if you hate those go here – you will be destroyed, a Smart car vs. an H2 is almost certain death. [My guess, no matter how safe it is it can’t be that good]. You can be an environmentalist without buying this overpriced crap.