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2012 Geneva: Brabus Smart eBike

2012 Geneva: Brabus Smart ForTwo Electric and an eBike with max speed of 30 mph

Brabus, known for its very high-performance Mercedes-Benz modifications is showing something a little more environmentally ‘smart’ at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. The company is showing yet another Smart ForTwo electric drive – however, this time they are accompanying it with a smart Brabus bike. Besides the upgraded stealthy look of Smart Brabus electric drive, [...]

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Smart ForTwo Sharpred

Smart ForTwo Sharpred unveiled, only 1,800 will be built

It’s time to meet the latest special edition from Daimler’s Smart brand. Known as the Smart ForTwo Sharpred, the special edition model is a real eye-catcher with a red and black paint scheme and is available as a coupe or convertible. The outside also features a front apron and rear trim panel that are grained [...]

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2012 Smart ForTwo

2012 Smart ForTwo gets a slight upgrade

Look very close and you’ll see a new look for the Smart ForTwo for the 2012 model year. Daimler said that it has sold more than than 1.3 million Smart ForTwos have since the first model launched in 1998. For the 2012 mode year, the Smart ForTwo gets a more dynamic look with a larger [...]

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2012 Smart ForTwo

Report: Lease a Smart for $99/month, as parent Mercedes seeks to boost sales

Smart has been having a little bit of a tough time as of recent and in an effort to boost sales, Smart USA launched a $99-a-month lease campaign last week, versus the original lease rates of $159 to $169 per month. All buyers need to do is shift over a $999 down payment and they [...]

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2012 Detroit: Smart For-Us Concept

2012 Detroit: Smart For-Us Concept is a pickup… no really it is

Smart’s niche vehicles have been a hit or miss and to confuse things even more, Smart unveiled their For-Us, which is a pickup concept…yes, you read correctly. “We at Smart love pick-ups – if they are small on the outside, large on the inside, very safe and extremely comfortable,” said Smart’s CEO, Dr. Annette Winkler. [...]

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Dock+Go

Rinspeed tries to solve range anxiety issue with Dock+Go

We’re pretty sure by now you’ve heard of the phrase ‘range-anxiety’ – its a term to define the anxiety caused when your electric car ‘distance to empty’ figure reads something below 5 miles. Swiss firm Rinspeed is now trying to address the range anxiety issue with an innovative Dock+Go concept that it will show at [...]

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Smart For-Us pickup concept

Smart For-Us pickup concept previewed before Detroit debut

At the 2012 Detroit Auto Show next moth, Smart will be showing up with what future urban pickup could look like with the new Smart For-Us Concept. Of course, Smart isn’t thinking of catering this to the common construction worker but instead is catering to the ‘young and young-at-heart with active lives.’ “We at smart [...]

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2011 LA Auto Show Design Challenge carries Hollywood theme

The week after next comes the 2011 LA Auto Show, but first, let’s looks at some of the entries for the eighth annual Design Challenge. Show organizers have asked six design firms to go nuts on what they think should be Hollywood’s most shouty, amazing and somehow elegant movie car. The marques competing are Honda, [...]

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Video: Woman has hard time parking Smart car in a huge spot

Video: Woman has hard time parking Smart car in a huge spot

There are a lot of women in this world that can drive – sometimes better than men, take Danica Patrick for example. However, there are also a lot of women in this world that can’t park for their lives. While many of you have probably seen women with huge SUVs performing a horrible parking job, [...]

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Daimler AG’s Zetsche has big plans for Mercedes, Smart and Maybach

Daimler AG’s Zetsche has big plans for Mercedes, Smart and Maybach

Mercedes-Benz has perhaps one of the most prominent histories in the automobile industry. However, in the late 1990s and all the way through the 2000 until now, Mercedes has fallen well below their expectations as a brand. The top brass has since been hard at work to reinvigorate their image and damaged reputation with some [...]

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