SmartCar

At a news conference in Brussels, Belgium this morning, Daimler AG and the Renault-Nissan alliance officially announced that the three automakers would collaborate on future products and each would exchange shares in the other companies. The deal has been rumored for months and Daimler has been ...

If you are looking to take your Smart fortwo to the next level of personalization, then some snazzy new exterior stickers are just for you. Combine the stickers with newly released Brabus interior and exterior accessories and your Smart car ...

Daimler rang in the new year with an online design contest called "Style your smart." Apparently, the idea of decorating a virtual smart appeals to a lot of people, since 50,000 design ideas we submitted by over 8,000 people from over 100 countries. The winner, pictured above, was submitted by ...

The Daimler brain trust of Dieter Zetsche and Thomas Weber has reportedly struck a deal with Renault/Nissan to develop its next generation of minicars due out in 2014 or so. As you would expect, Daimler will get a new Smart Fortwo ...

Why not spend your time at the computer pretending to be maneuvering around a city? That seems to be the question Smart's latest advertising campaign is asking. But Daimler is actually interested in a different question. For some reason, Daimler thinks men dressed in hot dog suits and street ...

The Smart Fortwo CDI can be an efficient beast. During the 2009 ALD World MPG Marathon, the little city car managed to get 80.61 miles per gallon (U.S.), which is darn impressive but not exactly representative of how normal people ...

Not digging the Smart Fortwo's two-color paint palette? Think you can do better? Well, then, you're in luck. Daimler, Smart's German parent company, has just announced a contest where customers and budding designers ...

According to a report in UK magazine AutoCar, Mercedes-Benz and Renault are planning to collaborate on a new modular micro-car platform. The new architecture would form the basis of the next generation of Smart cars as well as the ...

Daimler announced in March it would bring the tiny Smart car to the big state of Texas through its car-sharing service car2go. At the time, the German automaker declared that entering the Austin market with 200 ForTwos was "the next ...

Expanding the partnership between Elektromotive, which makes charging stations, and Daimler, the makers of the all-electric smart ed, the charging company is now the proud guardian of its very own fortwo EV. Elektromotive will use its new ...