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Why Torontonians Love The Smart Fortwo
A reader sent us this photo, explaining the “success” of the Smart Fortwo in Canada. It’s not because of rising gas prices or Canadian small car love. The real reason is that the Fortwo is just so...
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Announcing The Winners Of The 2012 Ten Worst Automobiles Today
Ladies and Gentleman, TTAC is glad to announce the winners of the Ten Worst Automobiles Today, as voted by you, the reader. The Smart Fortwo took the top spot – but what about the others? Second place...
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Renault Teases The Twingo
The Renault Twin-Z concept, shown here, was unveiled at a Milanese furniture show (seriously) but is said to preview the next-generation Twingo. The five-door concept clearly takes its styling...
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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
In 50 years we’ve gone from this… At the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show, Daimler used the occasion for their smart brand to introduce what they say will be “an extremely limited special edition” street legal...
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Big Rollout For Small Car: Nissan Launches DAYZ Kei (You’ve seen it already.)
Nissan and Mitsubishi today presented their jointly developed, but separately badged and marketed kei car to an amazingly large contingent of the Japanese press. TTAC readers are quite familiar with...
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Who The Hell Is Going To Buy The Smart ForJeremy?
The Smart ForJeremy concept, a collaboration between Smart and haute couture designer Jeremy Scott, is going into production and is set to go on sale in Q4 of this year. TTAC readers with more fashion...
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Yo! TTAC Wraps
The still you see above is from the latest promotional video regarding the new Smart ForTwo and ForFour. We will certainly see the ForTwo in the United States. The ForFour is less likely, but I am...
View ArticleBREAKING: Smart Builds Something Desirable
Click here to view the embedded video. In the automotive world “Smart” is little more than a punchline, a symbol of bad packaging and failed branding. The current lineup of cars has dragged on for far...
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Confession Time: I Want A Smart Forfour
As an occasional user of Car2Go, I’ve come to believe that the Smart ForTwo is one of the least pleasant vehicles to drive. The car’s lone saving grace is its tiny footprint, which makes it ideal for...
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Question Of The Day: Hit The Deck
Today’s QOTD comes from a reader, who wants some car audio advice for his Smart ForTwo. Reader Ed writes, I have a 2008 Smart ForTwo (don’t mock me, I live in San Francisco and I use it as a...
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2015 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive Review
I like Smarts. It’s not a guilty pleasure, for I am not ashamed. It is a bizarre pleasure, however, lacking consistency and believability. I’m a true blue car enthusiast with a love of V8 rumble,...
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Infiniti Confirms Compact Q30 for Frankfurt Auto Show
Confirming their June confirmation, Infiniti will bring a production-ready version of their compact Q30 to the International Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The compact, which will be built in the...
View Article2016 Smart Fortwo Review – Honey, I Shrunk The Car [Video]
America loves big cars, big trucks and fat crossovers. If you doubt me, all you need to do is look at 2015’s top sellers. The top five vehicles account for 13 percent of all vehicles sold in the USA...
View ArticleFinally, a Respectable Use For a Smart Car
Let’s face it: when it comes to modern cars, no model is as maligned as the diminutive two-seat Smart Fortwo. Well, maybe the Mitsubishi Mirage. Measuring just 8-feet-10-inches in length, the...
View ArticleJeep Patriot* Is TTAC’s 2016 Worst Automobile Today (And Here Are the Other...
It’s a Dodge Caliber festooned with a seven slot grille and boxy proportions. It exists for no other reason than to leverage the brand equity built up by decades of Jeep heritage. The Patriot*,...
View ArticleTTAC Says These Are 2016’s Ten Worst Automobiles Today, But The American Car...
Let’s face it: the automotive enthusiast universe wasn’t clamouring for a sub-subcompact, three-cylinder Mitsubishi hatchback. Not surprisingly, the Mitsubishi Mirage ended up on TTAC’s list of 2016’s...
View ArticleSmart Fortwo vs. 900-Pound Bull Elk: Who Wins? Do Both Lose?
Elk. Majestic creatures, and delicious, too. You can cut that meat with a fork. But colliding with 900 pounds of it in the smallest car on North American roads is no one’s idea of a picnic. That’s...
View Article2017 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive: America’s Smallest EV Gets a Makeover
Smart, the plucky and perplexing subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz, has the unique distinction of offering an EV variant of its sole U.S. model that’s generally accepted as being an improvement over the...
View ArticleNHTSA Wants to Know why Smart ForTwos Keep Bursting Into Flames
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a preliminary evaluations in response to complaints that Smart ForTwo engines are catching fire before quickly engulfing the car in flames....
View ArticleDaimler’s Smart Will Kill Its Internal Combustion Engines Before Year’s End
It would appear that the Smart money is literally on electric cars. Daimler says it plans to stop selling combustion-engined Smart models in North America entirely. If you live in the United States or...
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