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Smart Fortwo: World's Most Fuel Efficient Drift Car?

Rear-wheel drive, two seats, short wheelbase, sequential manual gearbox, available in either closed-roof or convertible body styles... sounds suspiciously like a sportscar, no? Yet nobody in their right mind would conclude after driving the Smart Fortwo that it is in the least bit sporty. Fuel efficient? Sure. Exciting? Not in the least. No matter, a well-trained driver can make just about anything on four wheels respond the way in which he pleases. And that includes drifting extraordinaire Sam Hubinette, who tells his fans in a recent ... Read more →

Elektromotive and Smart get serious with electric vehicle test Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

Frankfurt 2009: Tesla plus Brabus equals Ultimate High Voltage Jeremy Korzeniewski

In addition to the Tailor Made concepts that Brabus trotted out for the Frankfurt Motor Show, the German tuning firm also showed off a new version of its electric Smart Fortwo called the Unlimited ...

REPORT: Daimler and Renault collaborating on four-door Smart Jeremy Korzeniewski

Reports of a collaboration between Daimler and Renault on a new four-door model to join the Fortwo in Smart dealerships just won't die, leading us to believe there may be a ring of truth behind ...

Visionaire 57: Smart's new plug-in... magazine? Sebastian Blanco

Daimler certainly likes to apply the smart brand to all sorts of non-vehicle products, from art books to jewelry. The latest effort is a partnership with Visionaire (warning: bird songs will begin ...

Woodward 2009: Invasion of the Smarts 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Typically, the annual Woodward Dream Cruise in Detroit, Michigan, is a gathering ground for classic American cars, trucks and motorcycles. As you can see from our coverage of this year's festivities, the 2009 edition was little different from past years... mostly. We noted some sort of ...

Smart Tipping: Amsterdam villains reportedly pushing fortwos into canals for fun 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Note to Smart Fortwo owners: Don't park your itty-bitty city cars near easily-accessible bodies of water. If you thought the car's errant transmission and its rough-and-tumble shifts were your biggest concern, you've likely never heard of the latest craze sweeping Amsterdam: "Smart Smijten." That's ...

Smart upgrades 2010 Fortwo with more powerful diesel, hands-free system 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

There are many adjectives that can be used to describe the Smart Fortwo cdi, but powerful isn't among them. Fortunately, Smart's German parents have just upped the horsepower quotient by a welcome 21 percent with a corresponding 18-percent increase in torque for 2010. Those extra ponies ...

Smart's $99/month 'Cash for Clunkers' deal has a big, dirty secret 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Cash for Clunkers won't be official for a few weeks, but some automakers are already looking to cash in on the once in a lifetime opportunity to take up to $4,500 off the price of a new car or truck. Smart is offering its quirky little fortwo for $99 per month with the trade-in of a 'Clunkers' ...

Review: 2009 Smart ForTwo - Undone by a Dud of a Tranny 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Smart ForTwo isn't for shy people. Even though Smart USA has sold about 30,000 of these tiny two-seaters in the U.S., the little rollerskate attracts a lot of attention. On the road or in a parking lot, the ForTwo is a conversation piece, and people will come up and talk to you. Some will ...

Caption contest: the sustainable smart fashion headscratcher 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

A lot of people, when they see the smart fortwo ask "What is that?" We're used to the fortwo's diminutive style, but we're less sure how to engage with smart latest fashion collection. Available soon if not already, smart and the Paris shopping destination colette have partnered up for the ...

Sound the alarm: Brabus smart ed features built-in exhaust note generator 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

- Earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show, European tuning company Brabus showed off a modified version of the smart fortwo ED. At the time, Daimler claimed that the electric vehicle came equipped with "fine natural materials [that] demonstrate harmony with the environment," whatever that ...

Get smart: first U.S. incentive to buy a fortwo now available 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Penske Automotive Group, distributors of the smart fortwo here in the United States, recorded an impressive 24,622 total sales of the diminutive city car in 2008, and dealers widely reported that they could have sold even more had they been available. With that in mind, the nascent company set ...

All-electric smart ed gets green light in UK for 2012 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

According to Channel 4 in the UK, the electric smart fortwo will be storming that country in full force by the year 2012. For what it's worth (which is probably a lot to Daimler), that date coincides perfectly with the UK government's plan to begin promoting electric vehicles with a range of ...

Smart move: fortwo gets transmission upgrade 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

The diminutive little smart fortwo may be the darling of microcar fanatics the world over, but it's seemingly always been plagued with at least one major shortcoming: it's rough, jerky and otherwise unrefined automated manual transmission. The automaker is finally stepping in to do something ...

smart USA celebrating its first year by planting trees 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Smart officially began selling the tiny fortwo in the U.S. market in January 2008 and by the end of that year 24,622 examples had been sold. To celebrate, the U.S. distributor is teaming up with conservation group American Forests to plant an equal number of trees. The trees will go into the Cache ...

car2go, carsharing in the smart fortwo, comes to Austin, Texas this fall 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

You know what state needs more smart fortwos? Texas. That must have been Daimler's thinking before approving an expansion of the car2go carsharing service there. Daimler started car2go in Ulm, Germany last October and it will be coming to Austin, Texas - that little blueberry in the big red ...

smart fortwos get half-price parking in 350 New York parking garages 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Question: Should you only pay half the price for a parking spot if your car only takes up half as much room as other vehicles? According to Central Parking System, Inc., which owns more than 350 parking garages in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and New Jersey, the answer is yes. CPS has ...

Bigger smarts - forfour, forthree, etc. - could be coming 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Almost a year ago, 13 people squeezed into a smart fortwo. Yes, they were gymnasts. It might someday be easier to fit more than two people in a fortwo if plans to make a longer fortwo come to fruition. Smart head Anders-Sundt Jensen has told Automotive News (subs req'd) that an extended ...

Smarts pile ups as order cancellations accelerate 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Last November, when we talked with SmartUSA boss Dave Schembri at the LA Auto Show, he acknowledged that a number of the people who had placed early orders for the tiny fortwo had canceled before taking delivery. At that time, the cancellation rate was about thirty percent, although most of those ...

Geneva 2009: Brabus smart ed revealed 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Brabus Tesla Roadster is no longer the only electric car that the tuning company will make for you. In Geneva today, Daimler unveiled the Brabus smart ed. The tricked out door frame and interior are just two of the ways that Brabus has made this lime green smart ed their own. The car also ...

Geneva preview: smart limited edition three 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

The original smart car was designed to be easily customizable, to give each owner a car that looked just how they wanted it to look. But, why bother with your own Batmobile wings when Daimler is constantly churning out new variations of the fortwo model? The latest version is the "edition ...

Win a maple leaf smart fortwo edit10n, eh 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

To celebrate the tenth year of the smart brand, Mercedes-Benz is making some incredibly limited editions of the fortwo called edit10n. For the Canada-specific version of the edit10n, only be ten copies will be made. What makes this edit10n Canadian? The maple leaf details, of course. The new ...

England beats Germany in smart fortwo football soccer match 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

Car football soccer is one of these silly things some people love to do with their wheels, and it's most assuredly quite a show. Add in the excitement of watching a match between two of the best national teams in Europe, England and Germany, and you might get this: a soccer game being "played" ...

London-to-Edinburgh smart fortwo ad not misleading 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Recently, Daimler hyped up the smart fortwo's high-mpg ability by claiming in a television ad that you can go from London to Edinburgh, a distance of over 400 miles, on one tank of petrol fuel. This caused some - well, five - complaints that the ad was full of it. The UK's Advertising Standards ...

smart ed coming to Detroit 2009 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

We know that smart sold over 20,000 units of the fortwo in the US this year, so it's proven to be a popular car for its market. In LA last month, we saw the new Brabus edition and now we can get our own pics of an electric smart fortwo when the doors to the Detroit Auto Show open in about two ...

Honda scooters - outsmarting the smart? 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Scooter sales shot skyward just about as fast as gas prices did early this summer as the little buzzers took the place of larger, gas guzzling machines, especially in urban areas. Honda's got some new scooter advertising floating around these days, and it's pretty clever, likening the diminutive ...

Smart fortwo sharing program, car2go, expands; could go electric 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

The car2go smart fortwo sharing program, started in October, is apparently a success. Daimler kicked off the program near its Ulm, Germany headquarters with just 50 cars that can be rented by the minute (19 cents), or the hour, by people who need a car (a small one) but don't want to pay a ...

ABG chats with SmartUSA president David Schembri about EVs, diesel, micro-hybrids and more 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

One of the newest cars to drop into the US market is the Smart ForTwo. A decade after its European debut, the two-seat city car finally arrived stateside after several abortive attempts by both its parent company Daimler and independent distributors. This time around Daimler worked with a US ...

LA 2008: Brabus smart fortwo revealed 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

The smart fortwo BRABUS, unveiled today at the LA Auto Show, looks pretty sweet in person. I can do without the BRABUS name stuffed everywhere - floormat, hand brake, gas cap, etc. - but if you're willing to fork out the $17,990 for the coupe (or $20,990 for the cabriolet), then you probably ...

smart enthusiast drives his two seater to Italy for charity 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

It's not unusual to think that giving back is a good thing. Nathan Kift, from Gloucester, England, thought that he could give something back to the hospital who helped his son, Archie, get through 8 weeks at the Special Care Baby Unit. So, after a suggestion of the nurses in the hospital - who ...

Micro hybrid drive (mhd) smart fortwo gets upgraded 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

The micro hybrid drive (mhd) smart fortwo (see previous post) has been upgraded. Oh, it's still micro, don't worry, but now the start-stop system will come standard on the 61hp and 71hp versions of the fortwo in the UK. Why is this a good thing? Well, the mhd models use up to 24 percent less ...

These Smart accessories cross some sort of line, I'm sure 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

What you see above is part of Daimler's new smart-branded gifts for the holiday season. Specifically, it's the "smart 'winter magic' diorama" that brings us 75 percent of the way to the full collection of the "four seasons" series. You know, the one that also includes "Summer idyll" and "Autumn ...

Too sexy for CO2? Try the Hermes smart fortwo 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Fashion house Hermes doesn't discriminate between the highest performing supercars on the planet or the lowest emitting microcars. After supplying its luxury expertise to the Bugatti Veyron, the designers at Hermes have bestowed their colorific wisdom on the smart fortwo. Inside the little ...

smart USA sells fortwo number 20,000 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When smart first decided to offer its diminutive fortwo in the United States, the automaker and Penske, the U.S. distributor, pegged a goal of 20,000 sales for its first year. That mark has come and gone, a full two months ahead of schedule. In early August, we heard that Penske had raised its ...

Smart due in Brazil's urban centers in April 2009 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While Brazil still gets its share of ethanol-friendly auto debuts (see: Sand'up, Renault), not every green-leaning vehicle introduced there needs to suck down the sugarcane. Daimler's smart fortwo, for example, gets solid MPG numbers and low CO2 emissions when running on gasoline and, starting in ...

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