No, no confusion between a Cooper and a Smart. I really like the Mini Cooper for a lot of reasons. Fast, stable, great ralley car and a lot more room than a Smart but that's not saying a whole lot.
I have never driven a Smart so maybe I am totally full of it but they just seem way to short and unstable not to mention so little room. For as small as the Smart is I would have thought it would get upwards of 40 MPG easily. As mentioned earlier there is a diesel version available in Europe that gets higher mileage but In Europe there are a lot of small diesels that get 40 plus MPG.
My previous vehicle was an F-250 Super duty with the 7.3 liter diesel engine. We used it to tow our trailer. When empty, not towing that big heavy truck would get 20 MPG with major reserve power. I hated giving it up but when we bought a house and retired from RVing the truck was just too big to drive around town and major over kill for any other transportation requierments.
Regarding the Smart price, I must have been thinking of the prices I had seen advertised a few years back when they first were introduced. It seems the price back then was near $24,000. Maybe that was for a more US acceptably equipped version.
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