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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #30 on: November 09, 2014, 04:32:37 PM »
Well done to everyone ...... looks like a great turnout of forfours ... would love to have been able to make it .
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #31 on: November 09, 2014, 06:08:43 PM »
was a good turn from the whole smart community :)

LOTS of interest in the forfours

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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #32 on: November 09, 2014, 06:50:06 PM »
Indeedy, a good day. Well worth getting up at stupid o'clock, scraping the ice of the Brab', turning on the heated seat (:D) and driving up from South Devon! As has been said, a good turnout of forfours, especially Brabs. The weather was superb and even quite mild later on. So all in all thumbs up.  ;)

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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #33 on: November 09, 2014, 07:04:35 PM »
some more pics...

























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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #34 on: November 10, 2014, 01:09:00 AM »
Quote from: Wangswong on November 09, 2014, 03:43:24 PM
Really good pics and looks like a lot of brabs there!

In all there were 14 ForFour's....10 of which were Brabus !
(2 of the ForFour's were non-forum members...but they've now joined up)

I could add my own pics..but they're much the same as JJ n brabs.

On a more personal note.......
The one crying shame of this event, and indeed of any of the Smart
events held this year, is that every organiser avoided any reference to
the fact that 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the ForFour !
I for one have found that very hard to understand or accept.
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #35 on: November 10, 2014, 01:24:48 AM »
Quote from: CrazyG on November 10, 2014, 01:09:00 AM

On a more personal note.......
The one crying shame of this event, and indeed of any of the Smart
events held this year, is that every organiser avoided any reference to
the fact that 2014 was the 10th anniversary of the ForFour !
I for one have found that very hard to understand or accept.

Good point , it's such a shame the the Manufacturers are not as proud of their creation as it's owners are ....

I've had mine for all of those 10 years and still don't feel any urge to change it .
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #36 on: November 10, 2014, 09:45:38 AM »
I cheekily sent a PM to Al Young (Head 'honcho' of The Smart Club) re
the 10th anniversary issue of the ForFour, and got the following reply:-

"Hi and many thanks for the message - I'm delighted to say we'll be running a 10th Anniversary feature on the ForFour in the forthcoming issue of 4site due out at year end.  It's amazing how little publicity this 10th Anniversary has had :-)

Best wishes

Al "

Nice to see that it won't have gone unnoticed after all then.  ;D
So...paid up members of The Smart Club, be sure to get your copy.
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #37 on: November 11, 2014, 01:48:55 PM »
Hi Everyone,

Thank you for a great turnout at Simply Smart 2014, there was a fantastic variety of Smarts on display, especially ForFour's, the largest number for a long time!

Photos from the day can be found at the Beaulieu Flickr account https://www.flickr.com/photos/beaulieu_hants/

The 2015 Simply Smart event is confirmed for Sunday 8th November. Thank you to those that have given feedback for a date change for future years; we have chosen to keep the event on Remembrance Sunday for next year and will continue with the short Remembrance Service, a feature that seemed to be appreciated by all.

I must apologise for the ForFour not featuring in the cavalcade. We had an overwhelming number of voting forms back and to be in the top ten you needed quite a large number of votes. There was a ForFour in the top 10 that was supposed to then feature in the cavalcade and I'm sorry that due to an error we thought that one with those votes had left early.

Thank you for the support from the ForFour's, like I said it was a brilliant turn out from you and we hope to see you in 2015!
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #38 on: November 11, 2014, 03:29:41 PM »
It is well known fact that there is a large (die hard!) part of the Smart
fraternity who will ONLY vote for the Crossblade or ForTwo or Roadster.

Far be it from me to make an issue of it, but the ForFour in question was
not the tidiest or the cleanest example of those present, however....
the owners also have a Roadster .  I'm sure you can see my point.

Might I therefore suggest that a change be made to the voting system
for next years event; and indeed at every Smart event; and that change
to be that voting should be by the model/type ie., Crossblades,
ForTwos, Roadsters, and ForFour.....for the best of each.
An overall winner being optional, not necessarily mandatory.

By doing so, owner/attendee's of each group would feel involved and
not sidelined as most owners of ForFours feel we are.
After all, irrespective of the number of wheel bolts/nuts..they're ALL Smarts.
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #39 on: November 11, 2014, 08:44:10 PM »
A very good point CrazyG and agree fully that there should be a class for each model this is how it works for other car events I attend and works well, hopefully something can be done so this can happen?
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #40 on: November 11, 2014, 09:24:10 PM »
Quote from: BeaulieuEvents on November 11, 2014, 01:48:55 PM
Hi Everyone,

Thank you for a great turnout at Simply Smart 2014, there was a fantastic variety of Smarts on display, especially ForFour's, the largest number for a long time!

Photos from the day can be found at the Beaulieu Flickr account https://www.flickr.com/photos/beaulieu_hants/

The 2015 Simply Smart event is confirmed for Sunday 8th November. Thank you to those that have given feedback for a date change for future years; we have chosen to keep the event on Remembrance Sunday for next year and will continue with the short Remembrance Service, a feature that seemed to be appreciated by all.

I must apologise for the ForFour not featuring in the cavalcade. We had an overwhelming number of voting forms back and to be in the top ten you needed quite a large number of votes. There was a ForFour in the top 10 that was supposed to then feature in the cavalcade and I'm sorry that due to an error we thought that one with those votes had left early.

Thank you for the support from the ForFour's, like I said it was a brilliant turn out from you and we hope to see you in 2015!

BeaulieuEvents - On behalf of the forfour community I would very much like to thank you so much for all your efforts in making this a wonderful day out :)

TBH i was more than warmed by the attention and buzz around the forfours yet again and the lack of votes is no issue for me.

I am not disheartened in the least.

Thanks again and please pass on our thanks to those who delivered the service - I very much enjoyed it and it was a very personal and memorable service.

JJ
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #41 on: August 01, 2015, 04:45:20 PM »
Is anyone going this year? This is my first year owning my lovely little forfour and I'm wondering wether to go.
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Re: Sun 9th Nov - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
« Reply #42 on: August 01, 2015, 06:09:20 PM »
Hi, and thanks for the show of interest in that event.

As and when we have definite info for this years event
we will post it up as a new thread, ok.  ;)
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Re: Sun 9th Nov 2014 - Simply Smarts @ Beaulieu National Motor Museum
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