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Just bought: smart roadster

Hello car enthusiasts! The car I’m reviewing today is very special for me, and for several good reasons. The main one is that this is my real first car, as I just bought it with my money. And, for the ones who dream to have something and, much later, exclusively with their own effort, manage to make that dream come true, the feeling is something unforgettable, a genuine milestone!!! And that’s my case. A car enthusiast since 1997, when the, then new, Mercedes-Benz SLK made me awake to the “car world”, my car dreams always went around the aforementioned SLK and, occasionally, other cars that, by their time, were very appealing (the last one was the Opel Astra GTC 1.6 Turbo with 180hp, exclusively for Portugal). Even so, the SLK dream was omnipresent. It was standing deeply in my heart, and the choice was very obvious. It only depended on the time needed to afford a nice second-hand unit. The smart roadster never managed to “tickle the box” the way the SLK did. I even remember the first ...