Electric car in movie
Created November 26, 2004, at 10:18 pm by Anonymous
I was just wondering if anyone knows what car was featured in the movie "Sleepover"
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I haven't seen Sleepover but with 3 younger kids we saw Garfield.
I believe the lady vetranarian drove an 03 Prius.
Hi! the tiny green car is a Nissan! I finally found it in the newspaper.
What newspaper did you find the Nissan car in? And do you have more information on it?
the car in sleepover is a smart car, not a nissan.
The care is most definately a Smart car.
However, the Smart car is a European car (trust me - if you go anywhere in Europe, the Smart cars are EVERYWHERE), so if you want one that badly, you'd have to get one there. You could ship one, but what a hassle - if something happens to the cute little mickey mouse car, you've got nowhere to turn for repair.
Smart car is planning to launch in the US. I don't know when. They had their cars at the Detroit Show and they were featured on some tv segment. The get something like 40 to 50 mpg. They are going to offer a convertible too.
http://www.thesmart.co.uk/
Smart car is planning to come to the US. But they are having some problems meeting the EPA and DOT guidelines for crash and safety. From what I have read they are working on these issues but this in turn is delaying their launch of vehicles sold in the US.
The little green car in Sleepover is a Nissan Hypermini, you'll find further infomation, in Japanese ofcourse,
http://history.nissan.co.jp/HYPERMINI/
I myself own a Smart, but I'm tempted to go for the Hypermini purely for the zero emissions, but the top range on a four hour charge is 80miles, which means I can't really use it outside the city.
Smart cars are deceptively safe, even though they don't look it. Daimler Chrysler did a test where they crashed a big Mercedes into the front of a Smart car and the Smart car was less damaged and basicly the dummies weren't harmed. The Smart doesn't have alot of crumple space, but it does have a fairly rigid rollcage and lots of airbags. The only problem for a Smart car is the wind whips them around at highway speed, but they all have stability control to cut down on that.
Another good one for crash tests is the Mini from BMW. They did a crash test between a Ford F-150 vs. the Mini Cooper and the dummy occupants of the F-150 recieved worse injury ratings than the Mini occupants.
I'd like to see more cars like that in the US- especially the diesel engine version. The Smart car with the diesel engine gets 60 mpg (sequential manual transmission), and the Mini Cooper with the TDI gets 54 mpg (CVT or manual).
The Smart car has been here in Canada since fall of '04, and they seem very safe as well as clean. They are incredibly popular and there are some dealerships with long wait lists. I had a chance to drive one, and was impressed with how spacious it was (I'm over 6' tall and had plenty of leg and head room) and was also impressed with how many safety features are included. So far, only the 2-seater diesel model is available here. On the Smart website smart.com you can find a lot of safety info including videos showing crash tests with much larger vehicles. Thought some of you might be interested in checking it out.
The car in sleep over is a Nissan you can see it at this page.
http://www.evworld.com/archives/testdrives/hypermini.html
It is not a Smart car, you can clearly see the NISSAN logo (the silver circle with the rectangle Nissan logo).
Enjoy.
may i ask what a hybrid car is t
Where can you buy Smart Cars and/or Nissian Hyperminis?
Here's the Nissan hypermini from the movie;
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=6566&PHPSESSID=20afd12f08bcf445aec1b...
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