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Oh, and the owner was stunned when I told him the fuel economy.
Stupidly, the car has no OEM consumption gauge. From his research and a few fill-ups he figured the car was good for about 50 mpg US in mostly city driving in warm weather.
I explained the key things I did to improve from 50 to 67 mpg. (Him: "You must have been driving so slowly! Pissing off other drivers?" Me: "Nope!") I offered to show him, but he wasn't really interested. Going from ~10 mpg in the Merc (RIP), any number a Smart delivers is good enough.
He did jokingly admit that he over-compensates for the Smart's teensy-weensy image... he drives the car pretty hard in traffic, "racing" away from lights, etc.
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