{"id":2203,"date":"2003-07-13T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2003-07-13T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=513"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:44:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:44:27","slug":"re-on-cars-small-is-beautiful-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/13\/re-on-cars-small-is-beautiful-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: On cars: small is beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I noticed about the many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smart.com\/\">Smart<\/a> cars I saw in Europe: nearly all of them had company logos. I suppose they&#8217;re the ideal company car; small, easy to park and with excellent mileage. By the way, they&#8217;re also the least expensive to rent. Here&#8217;s one I shot in Vienna:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eu\/IMGP0637.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice the company motorbike behind it? That&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmw-c1.de\/de\/index.html\">BMW C1<\/a>, it has a rollbar and seatbelt. Here&#8217;s a better picture:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eu\/IMGP0354.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those two were for rent in the small alpine town of F\u00fcssen.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve never learned to handle a motorbike (or even a normal bycicle, to the amazement of my German relatives), but this one looks like the right bike for me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eu\/IMGP0922.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is a &#8220;velotaxi&#8221;, you see them quite a lot in Berlin &#8211; two passengers fit in the back. At least I wouldn&#8217;t fall off this one&#8230; then again, Belo Horizonte, where I live, is hillier than San Francisco, so it really wouldn&#8217;t be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I noticed about the many Smart cars I saw in Europe: nearly all of them had company logos. I suppose they&#8217;re the ideal company car; small, easy to park and with excellent mileage. By the way, they&#8217;re also the least expensive to rent. Here&#8217;s one I shot in Vienna: Notice the company motorbike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-travel"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}