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Report: Renault and Mercedes to team up on small car platform

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 new Twizzy electric vehicle from Renault. Like the current Smart ForTwo, the new platform will be rear engine and rear wheel drive but it will be able to accomodate a stretched wheelbase for a new ForFour. The two seater would arrive in 2013 and the four seater a year later. The last ForFour was actually a ... Read more →

Forget Zipcar - Smart reportedly readying car2go car-sharing program in Texas Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

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 ...

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 Jeremy Korzeniewski

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 ...

Smart Tipping: Amsterdam villains reportedly pushing fortwos into canals for fun 4 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 4 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 gives electric drive version the green light 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Mitsubishi and Subaru were the first to start production, but the list of major automakers that are going electric is growing. As rumored, the Daimler is adding its name to the list with an announcement today that the smart ed "is ready for small series production." Apparently, the trials that ...

Sound the alarm: Brabus smart ed features built-in exhaust note generator 5 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 5 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 ...

Smart move: fortwo gets transmission upgrade 6 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 finally enters Chinese market for real, can it compete with the clones? 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Judging by the number of cars on Chinese roads that look very much like a smart ForTwo, one might be forgiven for thinking that they had been on sale there for years. However, it turns out the diminutive city car has never been officially offered for sale there. There are plenty of local ...

smart fortwos get half-price parking in 350 New York parking garages 8 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 8 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 ...

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 ...

These Smart accessories cross some sort of line, I'm sure 1 year 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 ...

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 ...

133 Smarts pack San Francisco's Lombard Street! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It appears that early American buyers of the Smart ForTwo are trying to make the diminutive Two-Seater into a true cult car and today's event in San Francisco is the latest example of that. Anyone who has ever scene a movie or TV show set in San Francisco has probably caught a glimpse of Lombard ...

Smart Car does highway-speed triple roll. Driver unscathed, seeks orphan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Laboratory crash testing is a great tool to give automakers and the public an idea of how well a vehicle might protect passengers in an accident. However, there can be a huge difference in crash simulations involving dummies with sensors and real world crashes involving real world people. As you ...

Some very Smart-looking rollerskates 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Some_very_Smart_looking_rollerskates'; Calling a very small car a "roller skate" has been an ongoing joke for many years. We've been hearing it since the days of the Nash Metropolitan, through the Geo Metro years, right on up through today, many times in ...

Smart ForTwo aces Insurance Institute crash test W/Video 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the biggest questions to consider with tiny cars like the Smart ForTwo is what happens in a crash? The Smart is only eight and a half feet long. The first generation Smart has been tested numerous times over the years and always done reasonably well especially in comparison to other really ...

smart may force cities to reconsider parking laws 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The smart limited two, unveiled in Geneva. One reason that micro-vehicles like the smart exist is so that they can cut down on congestion. There is only so much space available in big urban areas, and parking spots are often hard to come by. So, to pack more vehicles in the same amount of parking ...

Smart cars selling strong, distributor could do with 15,000 more this year 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The smart limited two, unveiled in Geneva. It's a good time to be selling Smarts in the U.S. The North American distributor, Roger Penske, told Automotive News (subs req'd) that he thinks that, on top of the 25,000 Smarts he's getting from Europe this year, he could "easily" sell 15,000 more. The ...

Crusing in Style: a new scooter and minicar book 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I'm pretty sure that the majority of us would like to cruise in style. Whether that style gives off the image that we love high-performance, high utility or high economy, whatever we choose to ride or drive says something about us. A Camry tells other people that you value reliability and resale ...

I'm not dead yet! The Chinese Smart clone is set for a comeback. 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I am not here to make any personal claims regarding the Chinese motorcycle, scooter or automobile manufactures ability to create a good product. I have very little personal experience with any motor-vehicle to come from mainland China. I have a little experience with their military sidecar bikes, ...

It must be nice... George Clooney gets paid to drive a lithium powered Smart through Italy 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Hybrid Technologies has decided to buy a little positive press in the form of George Clooney. Mr. Clooney already has one electric car, can't he share? I'd like to drive through Italy in almost anything, how about a Vespa? Oh well, nevermind. The aforementioned trip is set to coincide with Hybrid ...


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