Norwegian Good

Almost everyone who’s anyone in Hollywood drives a Mercedes or a BMW.  The occassional wanna-be Lexus or Acura crops up, as does the odd heavily advertised sporty Cadillac.  But for those who want to stand out from the crowd as environmentally conscious, the car of choice is the Prius.  (I myself drive one, proving it can’t be THAT hip.)

But that may all change in the next year or two with the introduction of the all-electric CIty from Think in Norway.

A cute but sporty little two-seater the size of a Smart Car, the Think City will be sold in limited numbers in Southern California starting next year, according to the LA Times.

Purporting to have a range of 112 miles, the City will roll off the assembly line in Aurskog, Norway next year at a less-than-GM-nervous-making 44 vehicles per day, or about 10,000 per year.

The first thing you gotta think when you see the City is, of course — man is this thing gonna crumple like an origami swan when anything hits it going more than five miles an hour?  Well apparently it meets both US and European safety standards.  But I say let’s see the youtube videos of the crash tests before we believe it.

Still, it’s an exciting idea, the first mass-produced genuine electric car in the US.  How soon until Ed Begley Jr. and Leo DiCaprio appear in the pages of US Magazine at the wheel of one of these babies?

At a cost of perhaps as high as $35,000, they might be the only ones for a while.