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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2014, 05:03:33 PM »

I didn' t see Kate turn up at all......
And 9582djk arrived shortly after you  and cowboy left JJ.
A nice shiny black Brab on Monoblock A's..  8)

The Ace meet is always enthusiastically supported by owners of Smart ForTwo's and
Smart Roadster's, so no one can truthfully say that it is because this event is held on
a Saturday that that is the reason for the poor turnout of ForFours.
So just what is the problem or issue here ?

No wonder the followers of the ForTwo and Roadster don't consider the ForFour to be
a real Smart when one see's the abysmal representation shown by ForFours at Smarts meets.

I just hope we can change all that by the time the next Smart meet comes along......
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2014, 07:29:03 PM »

More forfours than crossblades though ;)

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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2014, 07:36:12 PM »

I'm sorry but it's just TOO far for me to come from South Devon.  :-[

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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2014, 09:02:53 PM »

No wonder the followers of the ForTwo and Roadster don't consider the ForFour to be
a real Smart when one see's the abysmal representation shown by ForFours at Smarts meets.

More forfours than crossblades though ;)

JJ

so therefore going by what JJ said, the crossblade isnt a real smart then?!
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2014, 09:45:42 PM »

No, workshop was stacked today (didn't leave till 6.30!) so couldn't skive off :(

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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #20 on: April 05, 2014, 09:52:52 PM »

Excuse my little 'rant'...no offense intended....
I just get so many mixed feelings when I go to Smart meets
and see so many ForTwo's and Roadsters but very few ForFours  :'(

Yes I am aware that there were a lot more of those 'others' built
than of our 'little gems', but on a pro-rata basis our turnout should
be more than we actually get. And yet we are asked when are we
going to have a meet or where are there any Smart meets !
The one off Sunday meets at Hemel and Reading drew 6/7 of us,
which is a better turnout. Was that down to the clearer roads
and it being a Sunday that made it ok/better, or what ?
Or is it that we prefer just the company or 'our own' ?

I'd like to have another Sunday morning breakfast meet in the
London area (or somehere) sometime before May. 
Anyone up for that ?
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2014, 11:13:05 PM »

If you add the number of 450, 451 and 452 then the 454 probably had an attendance of a higher percentage of total cars produced than the others ;)

Factor in the forfour being a more family based car who don't do forums or meets so we do pretty well actually ;)

JJ
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2014, 09:02:49 AM »

i wont be doing the ace cafe again poor turn out >:(
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2014, 12:09:51 PM »

I prefer to go to Forfour only meets, especially when most fortwo owners first question is 'is that really a smart car?' At least until the mk II 454 is releases
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2014, 02:41:33 PM »

That doesn't make sense. We all sit and chat about the forfours anyway and lots of people come over to talk about the forfour.

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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2014, 03:31:48 PM »

Indeedy. The Beaulieu meeting was IMHO great!  :)
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #26 on: April 06, 2014, 06:46:45 PM »

Yeah I agree...I had 2 couples come up and chat to me about ForFours
when I was in the car park at the Ace Café. Both had Roadsters and
were looking for something bigger and easier to get in/out of as "we
are no longer youngsters" as they put it.
Genuinely interested...so maybe we might have some newbies along.
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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #27 on: April 06, 2014, 07:18:59 PM »

Shame they didn't want the one in front of them for sale ;)

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Re: Ace Café - Smart car Meet - Saturday 5th April 2014
« Reply #28 on: April 06, 2014, 08:28:32 PM »

I'm sorry I couldn't make it, sounds like a good day- just light on the 454 numbers.
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