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  • 2015 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive

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  • 2016 Smart ForTwo
    New 2016 Smart ForTwo Will Keep Older Electric Drive Model In Lineup

    Attracted by the new look, much-improved feature set, and better fuel economy ratings of the all-new 2016 Smart Fortwo? You’ll have to wait another six to eight months before you’ll find it at U.S. dealerships. On the other hand, if it’s the next generation of the all-electric...

  • 2015 Scion iQ
    Scion iQ To Be Pulled Off Sale As Tiny Car Fails To Sell In U.S.

    With a handful of new models coming this year, Toyota's "youth brand" Scion is clearing the decks. One of the casualties is its unsuccessful iQ minicar. The little car, often mistaken for the two-seat Smart ForTwo but actually a "3 + 1-seater" (at least technically), never met its sales goals. Last...

  • Smart Fortwo drag racing ad
    Smart Electric Drive Ad: Where Winning Drag Races Really Counts

    Whatever you think of the diminutive city cars produced by Daimler's Smart brand, the company certainly has a talent for marketing. The latest ad from Smart Canada has the same sort of self-deprecating humor that Volkswagen used for years when advertising its Beetle--another rear-engined small car...

  • Smart Fortwo vs Mercedes-Benz S-Class crash test
    2016 Smart Fortwo Faces Mercedes S-Class In Crash Test: Video

    Reassuring people that its tiny Fortwo city car is safe must be a constant struggle for Daimler's Smart brand. In Europe, where the diminutive cars roam around streets barely wider than the car, it's not such a problem. But in the U.S, where half the population drives 5,000-lb pickup trucks, people...

  • 2016 Smart ForTwo and Smart ForFour (European models), global launch, Berlin, July 2014
    2016 Smart ForTwo And ForFour: World Debut Live Photos

    Daimler will be hoping that third time is the charm with the new third-generation 2016 Smart Fortwo and its four-seat counterpart. The all-new models have now been revealed in all their glory at the launch event in Berlin, and while several facets of the brand's values remain, a whole lot has...

  • 2016 Smart ForTwo

    The new Smart ForTwo and Smart ForFour minicar models have just made their world debuts in Berlin, and we've got the details. Thus far, only the two-seat Smart ForTwo has been confirmed for the U.S. It will launch as a 2016 model. While the Smarts will offer buyers in most markets a choice between two three-cylinder engines, the U.S. will receive only the more powerful turbocharged option, good for 90 horsepower and 100 lb.-ft of torque. ALSO SEE: White House Responds To Tesla Direct-Sales Petition: Sorry, Talk To Congress That engine will be mated to an all-new dual-clutch...

  • New Smart Fortwo and Forfour preview video
    Next-Generation Smart Fortwo, Forfour Previewed In Official Video

    Daimler's Smart brand has spent the last few years releasing concepts that preview the look of its next-generation city car, but the car itself has remained frustratingly under wraps. Now we've got our best look yet at the form of the new cars, in an official video from Smart itself. The video...

  • Smart ForTwo tipped over in San Francisco. Photo by NBC Bay Area.
    Smart Tipping Continues: Tiny Cars Upended In San Francisco, Again

    Some trends are harmless: think hula hoops. Some trends don't hold up well in the harsh glare of history: think acid-washed jeans. And some trends constitute felony vandalism: think Smart tipping. After an outbreak in early April in which three Smart cars were turned over, another pair of Smart...

  • Teaser for new Smart Fortwo and Forfour
    New Smart Fortwo Minicar Slides In Sweden, Due This Fall? (Video)

    It's fair to say the Smart brand hasn't been one of Daimler's bigger successes, but bosses will be hoping the third-generation car is closer to "third time lucky" than "three strikes and you're out". Smart's latest video suggests that new third-gen car is on its way soon, as camouflaged cars...

  • Smart ForTwo tipped over in San Francisco. Photo by NBC Bay Area.
    New San Francisco Sport: Smart Tipping (Cows Are So Passe)

    Smart ForTwo city cars are apparently quite easy to tip over.

  • 2014 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive
    2014 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive: What It's Like On The Road

    With minimal changes from the model launched last year as the least expensive electric car in the U.S., the 2014 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive remains the smallest and shortest plug-in electric car sold in the U.S.--as well as the only one offered as a convertible. The two-seat electric Smart comes...

  • 2014 Smart ForTwo Elecric Drive

    Cars described as "ahead of their time" are usually regarded fondly, but often commercially unsuccessful--the resulting vehicles often too unusual for many consumers. Daimler's Smart brand and the Fortwo minicar fits that bill and could well be described as ahead of its time, but company boss Dieter Zetsche believes the brand's time may finally have come. Speaking to Autocar, he explained that Smart was the answer to a question "more relevant now than when we started it". The firm first started producing its tiny two-seat ForTwo back in 1998, but while sales have been decent--particularly in...

  • 2015 Smart Fortwo spy shots
    More Details On 2015 Smart Fortwo: Third Time Lucky?

    Will it be third time lucky for the Smart Fortwo minicar? That's what Smart's parent company Daimler must be wondering, as disguised versions of the third-generation Smart undergo final testing out in the wild. The latest model, spotted here by Motor Authority spy photographers, show a car very...

  • Smart Brabus online customizing website
    Now, Tiny & Fuel-Efficient Cars Get Full Custom Treatment Too

    Formally uncool green cars are finally getting some attention from car customizers.

  • 2013 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive NHTSA crash test (Image via crashnet1.com)
    2013 Smart Electric Drive: 4 Stars Overall For Crash Safety From NHTSA

    The 2013 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive is the latest electric vehicle to have undergone the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's crash test procedures. Following frontal crash, side impact, and side pole impact tests, the Electric Drive was awarded four from a possible five stars overall...

  • 2013 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Cabrio, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Aug 2013
    2013 Smart Electric Drive Cabrio: Brief Drive Of Electric Convertible

    If you want an electric car, there are now 14 different models with plugs to choose from. But if you want an electric convertible, there's just one: The 2013 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Cabrio. The little two-seat battery electric vehicle with the roll-back cloth roof is now on sale along with the...

  • 2013 Smart Electric Drive Coupe, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Aug 2013
    2013 Smart Electric Drive Coupe Lease Price Lowered To $139

    The prices just keep falling on plug-in electric cars. The latest to announce a new, lower lease price is Smart, which cut the monthly cost of a three-year lease on its 2013 ForTwo Electric Drive Coupe from $199 to just $139. That's not the lowest single electric-car lease we're aware of in the...

  • 2013 Smart Electric Drive, Brooklyn, NY

    Maybe there's a future for battery leasing among U.S. electric-car buyers after all. Nissan had considered leasing battery packs separately before launching its 2011 Leaf, but ended up choosing to sell or lease the entire car. So the 2013 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive is the first car in the country which offers buyers the ability to purchase the car outright--or to lease the battery pack. According to InsideEVs, which spoke to Smart general manager Mark Webster two weeks ago, 90 percent of the first month's owners opted for the company's "Battery Assurance Plus" program. Specifically, 53 of...

  • 2013 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive  -  Quick Drive, May 2013
    2013 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive: Yes, Better Without Gasoline

    If you’re still smitten with the design and styling of the Smart Fortwo, you’re probably going to be happier with the version that never needs a gas station. That’s the conclusion we emerged even more confident about, after the hour earlier this month we spent with the Smart...

  • 2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI Convertible first drive
    Summer, Sensibly: Four 2013 Convertibles With Good Gas Mileage

    Many things can signify summer--the weather finally being warm enough to ditch those outer layers of clothing; TV ads taking a distinctly more cheery tone; maybe simply hunting around for your sunshades for the first time in six months. It's now possible to have fun in the sun and get good gas...

  • 2013 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive (European version)
    2013 Smart Electric Drive To Offer Battery Leasing In U.S.

    It seems automakers in Europe have found the key to increasing electric car sales: battery leasing. With 97 percent of European Smart Fortwo Electric Drive customers choosing to lease the battery, rather than buy it outright, Smart USA will now offer buyers the same option, when the car debuts this...

  • 2013 Smart ForTwo Electric Drive
    2015 Smart Electric Drive: Both ForTwo & ForFour Models

    Smart is doubling up on electric vehicles with its next generation small cars--as its Electric Drive will come in both two- and four-seat formats. It's been known for a while that Smart would revive the ForFour name with its next city car. The company previously sold a car with this name in Europe...

  • 2011 Scion iQ at 2010 New York Auto Show, with Scion's Jack Hollis
    Now We Know: U.S. Buyers Don't Much Want Tiny Two-Seat Cars

    It was always a big question whether Americans would buy very, very small cars. When the Smart ForTwo launched in 2008, right into the teeth of gas prices that soared to $4 a gallon, it looked as if the answer might be yes. But now it seems the longer-term answer is, "No, not really." Sales of the...

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