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2008 Smart ForTwo Crash Test

May 19th, 2008 10 Comments

Smart has lived up to its name producing a car which although is noticeably small in size, is not small in safety features. The U.S. safety authority, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently gave high marks for safety to the tiny Smart ForTwo.

The light car scored the organisation’s top score in frontal and side-impact crashes. A remarkable achievement for a car which many incorrectly assume as unsafe.

2008 Smart fortwo first steer

February 21st, 2008 30 Comments

2008 Smart fortwo first steer

A touch of “blasphemy” ensures Smart’s second coming

Say what you like about Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. But the book and later movie did have one good effect. By introducing the world’s largest car market, the US, to the Smart car it did its bit to keep Smart, DaimlerChrysler’s bold experiment in alternative urban motoring alive at a time when the pressures to wind the whole thing down were strong.

In the book and movie a pretty hokey plot about the descendents of Christ jousting with sinister ecclesiastical forces is given much-needed European flair by a Smart fortwo that leads its priestly pursuers on a merry chase through Paris.

Nice touch, because the French capital is full of Smarts.

2008 Smart ForTwo preview

February 4th, 2008 9 Comments

Mercedes-Benz, proud owner of Smart, has announced the specifications and pricing of the all-new 2008 Smart ForTwo, which lands in Mercedes dealerships later this month.

Replacing the current ForTwo, the model which put Smart on the map, is not an easy job. But not only does the new one look better (and has more features), but you can buy one starting from the same low price of $19,990.