New Details Of Next Smart ForTwo To Be Revealed At Paris Motor Show September 26, 2006
Comfort, agility, safety and ecology are particular strengths of the smart fortwo. They are best demonstrated in European cities such as Paris, Berlin or Rome - the environment that this car was developed for and where it has achieved cult status in a very short space of time.
The smart fortwo requires only half the road space of most other vehicles. The agile two-seater not only gets you around town more quickly; if everyone were to drive a smart fortwo, the line of cars waiting at the traffic lights would be only half as long, and the car parks would have …
Smart says new ForTwo model due in April 2007 March 5, 2006
The successor to the two-seater Smart ForTwo city car should be on sale in April 2007, a spokesman for the DaimlerChrysler unit said on Sunday.
Smart had not previously said when exactly in 2007 the new model would appear. The spokesman denied a report due to appear in German news magazine Focus on Monday, March 6, which said the launch was being brought forward from autumn to spring to minimize the time the old model was on sale with a new model pending.
The current Smart ForTwo has been on the market since 1998, but never reached hoped-for sales of 200,000 units …
Smart roadster to be taken over February 23, 2006
DaimlerChrysler has agreed in principle to sell the rights and production equipment of the roadster to a British consortium.When DaimlerChrysler announced it would cease production, a number of organisations expressed an interest in taking over the product and now “Project Kimber” has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU). “Project Kimber” was originally formed to try and take over MG, ultimately losing out to Nanjing of China.
Bringing the roadster to the UK makes a lot of sense. The car has always sold well in the British market and, indeed, smart in the UK fought to increase its allocation of roadsters in …