Blog from the Loft

United Auto Group (UAG) will become Daimler Chrysler’s sole U.S. distributor of Smart Cars. UAG is the number 2 U.S. public dealer group in terms of sales, with a collection of about 180 U.S. retail franchises. UAG also have dealerships in Europe. UAG will purchase cars built by DaimlerChrysler in German plants at a [...]

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Same old story — not enough storage in the loft. I put together the IKEA Malm 6 chest of drawers this weekend. Took me two hours. This IKEA piece is a little different from the other pieces that I put together. Some notables are:

It does not use any hex/allen screw. So you could just use [...]

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Mort, Elvis or Einstein, there types of programmer. Useful classification of programmer (that’s programmer with a small “p”). Read the references below for more info (yes this is just a meta post):

Wesner Moise’s thoughts,

Roger Jennings’ thoughts,

The original idea from Nikhil Kothari

And an interesting analysis by Rockford Lhotka

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Mercedes dealer council chairman says MB dealers in the States do not want to sell Smart Cars in their Mercedes show room. It may hurt their image. Does this mean that MB buyers are not “smart”? Which brings up the old but true joke: What do you say Mercedes in German?………………………………. Taxi.
Yes, MB are well [...]

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According to Forbes Autos, the official announcement, by CEO Dieter Zetsche, is that
will begin selling its fuel-efficient, two-seat Smart Car in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2008. I guess we will wait and see. Meanwhile you could have pick on up in Canada since 2004.
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First, a smart car was used in the Pink Panther remake with Steve Martin. Now it is driven by Tom Hanks in the Movie version of the Da Vinci Code, speeding away, at one time backwards (what else) down a Paris street. I wonder how many people know that is a Smart Car.

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While Daimler Chrysler is expected to formally bring the Smart car to the US in 2007, ZAP (NYSE Arca:ZP) is doing it now. ZAP, stands for Zero Auto Pollution, in Santa Rosa CA, imported Smart cars for sale in the US in 2005 and continue to do so.
ZAP has to modify the cars to meet [...]

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