If you’ve had doubts about dropping your name onto the seemingly endless wait list for the Smart ForTwo due to concerns that it might not be spacious enough, this picture of Shaq in his new ride should ease those worries. The 325lb, 7′1″ basketball star, who currently plays center for the Phoenix Suns, has reportedly added the ForTwo to his ever-growing fleet. From the looks of things, Shaq’s ForTwo looks surprisingly stock. Although there’s a decent chance Shaq’s had the driver’s seat positioned further back in the ForTwo, as he does with all his cars. We highly doubt that the ForTwo is Shaq’s new daily driver. But it’s good to see the big man promoting fuel efficiency. Two more images following the jump:

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Can’t take the long wait list for a Smart ForTwo? Another fuel-efficient and budget-friendly minicar is on the way. Although, you won’t want to take it beyond city limits.

Produced by the Nice (No Internal Combustion Engine) electric car company and designed by Giugiaro of Italdesign, the MyCar is a two-person plug-in vehicle debuting this week at the British Motor Show in London (July 23 - Aug 3). While the Nice MyCar produces no carbon emissions and achieves a 40-mile range in normal city driving, the electric minicar tops out at 40mph, as compared with 90mph for the ForTwo and 65mph (and a 110-mile range) for the battery-powered Think City- which is due to hit the U.S. by the end of next year.

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