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Smart fortwo electric drive – GET SMART

We drive the smartest electric car in town As the world comes to terms with alternative energy vehicles, it is clear that there is going to be resistance to change, especially where utility, charging time and opportunity cost are concerned. While most hybrid cars are more or less direct replacements for the pure internal combustion engine versions of the same vehicle, a city car, and especially so an electric car, has to be good enough as a stand alone vehicle

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Smart Brabus ForTwo Cabrio – ForTwo to Tango

Brabus gives the new smart Fortwo a shot in the arm Over the years, the smart Fortwo has become a phenomenon, with a strong enthusiast following all over the world, and smart clubs popping up in China now as well as in European countries. Apparently, 36 cities in the world including Beijing and Shanghai have really taken to the smart Fortwo due to its high quality and ease of parking, and one of the first European cities to embrace the

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Smart 453 at Silverstone

13 03 15 The day we took our Smart 453 For Two up to Silverstone for some track time and testing Channel 4 were doing some filming for the programme For the Love of Cars programme and our Smart Roadster race car (sponsored By Smart-Roadsters.com and driven by Den Grace) was up there. The For Two had been picked up the week previously, the car had only been used around town and for some shorter journeys. We arrived at Silverstone

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smart 453

Smart 453

The third generation smarts are here at last, and they represent a major sea change in both design and engineering philosophy for the ‘think different, think funky’ part of the Mercedes-Benz portfolio. While the original smart (450), later to be renamed Fortwo, was an expensively engineered stand alone product that stood out for its significant design and engineering innovations, the smaller volume Forfour used some parts from Mitsubishi, which was part of the fragile DaimlerChrysler empire back then. By this

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