S4A East Coast Run 2012

Did you see a swamp of Smart cars along the North-South Highway, LPT highway and around Kijal area between 31st of August to 2nd September 2012?

Every year Smart4All (S4A) will try to arrange an outing with all Smarties. Genting & Cameron Highland have always been our favorite spots because of the central location but this year we wanted to do something different.

After some researches and discussions, the S4A members agreed to convoy to the Cherating @East Coast this year during the long weekend conjunction with Merdeka Holiday!

Smart4All Smart Car Club Malaysia East Coast Club 2012 banner

It wasn't an easy task to plan and arrange such an outing as it involves 36 Smart Cars from 7 different states, 61 adults and 3 lovely kids but with the passion of all Smarties, we make it happened and in fact the event was way much exceeded our expectation.

It was FUN, MEMORABLE, full of LAUGHTER & SURPRISES,... Argh... Words just can't describe how GREAT and EXCITED we are, come join us during the next outing and you will definitely feel the JOY of it.

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Here is the summary itinerary:-

31st August 2012 - Day 1

4:00am     North Smarties depart from Penang
5:00am     South Smarties depart from Johor
6:00am     South Smarties meeting point & depart from Malacca
7:30am     Central Smarties depart from Kuala Lumpur

9:00am     North & Central Smarties meeting point @Karak

While waiting... Smarties from KL were trying to "show off" their Smart t-shirt. Yup~ they did this in the public

Finally the Penang Smarties arrived

Smart Roadster BRABUS from Penang

Smart Fortwo Coupé from Penang aka Little Incredible Hulk

11:00am   Depart from Karak and head to Kijal Town

Waiting for the rest to cross the tol house

2:00pm   United with South Smarties @Kuantan

Met up with Southern Smarties and head to Kijal Town

3:30pm   Check-in Awana Kijal Golf Beach & Spa Resort, complimentary refreshment, free & easy + car fixing time!

The guys helping to fix spacer

6:30pm    Gather & cari makan - @Tong Juan, Kijal Town

Penang Smarties waiting for FOOOOOD~

The famous dish in Kijal, Stuff Crab

8:30pm   After dinner - Jalan jalan & walk-the-car

Vroom vroom~~ looking for parking at Dungun 'so-called' night market

One of our beloved photographer & his lovely wife

Although we found the place a little dull but we lighted it up with our torchlights & joyful laughter

10:00pm  Return to Awana Kijal, party, gaming & creativity time @Beach

The traditional Yam Seng~~ to celebrate a wonderful journey @Awana Kijal Beach

Oh no~~ see who has landed and joined Smart4All

Don't mess with me~

1:00am    We called it a day...

It was indeed a looooong journey especially for Smarties from Northern & Southern but it has carved a wonderful & memorable experience to all of us.

Stay tune for more updates~~

Check out the video here.

History of SMART

In the late 1980s, SMH (maker of the Swatch brand of watches) began developing an idea for a new car using the same type of manufacturing strategies and personalization features used to popularize Swatch watches.

This idea soon became known as the "Swatchmobile".


While design of the car was proceeding, SMH CEO, Nicolas Hayek feared existing manufacturers would feel threatened by the Swatchmobile. Thus, rather than directly competing, he prefered to cooperate with another company in automotive industry. This would also relieve SMH of the cost burden in setting up a distribution network.

Hayek approached several automotive manufacturers and on July 3, 1991 he reached an agreement with Volkswagen to share development of the new project.

By 1993, Volkswagen had already been working on their own "three-litre car". Hayek had suspected that Ferdinand Piëch (the CEO of Volkswagen) would seek to end the agreement with SMH, he discreetly began approaching other car companies with the Swatchmobile project.

He finally reached an informal agreement with Daimler-Benz AG, maker of Mercedes-Benz cars.

While they are setting up the new company, Nicolas Hayek insisted it retain 'Swatch' in some way: "Swatchmobile", or "Swatch Car". Daimler-Benz refused, and pushed for a neutral name.

The final name settled upon was Smart, an acronym for Swatch Mercedes Art.

source from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)

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