Any attempt to place the Smart ForTwo within a competitive segment is usually based on its small footprint and sub-$20K starting price. Rivals might thus include the Honda Fit, or the Mini Cooper, or the Nissan Micra. All wrong, I'm afraid. An automatic-equipped and fully loaded “Prime” will crack the $22K mark and keep going. For that kind

Smart calls this car the Fortwo Electric Drive, but they shorten Electric Drive to an acronym (ED) on the side of the car and in some of their literature. Now ED doesn’t always have the most positive connotation in my books, and I was fearing that driving an electric car from Smart could be the automotive equivalent of erectile dysfunction. I’m her

Model 2008 to 2015 Smart Fortwo Vehicle Type Two-seat microcar History/Description Changes to diesel emissions standards meant that for the 2008 model year, Smart had to scrap the diesel engine powering their tiny model and install a gas-powered unit instead. The second-generation model, on our shores, remained similar to its predece

Perhaps I got a little infatuated with the Smart EQ Fortwo Cabrio in just one short week, but as I drove it around on miscellaneous errands, I kept returning to the idea that this might be the perfect second vehicle for many families. It’s  tiny ! Which makes it  adorable ! Yes, it deserves italics! Now, every family needs a family vehi

When I first visited Europe, I already had cars on the mind and I knew I’d be in for some special treats once I arrived. For a young car junkie like myself, raised on European car mags, Top Gear , Majorette die-cast models, late night WRC broadcasts on Speed Channel and any number of car chase scenes through winding European streets, Europe was

Miami, FL – When the super-quiet Smart ForTwo Electric Drive arrived in Canada for 2013, it instantly cured the micro two-seater’s biggest flaw: its see-saw, grab-the-Gravol, head-bucking semi-automatic transmission. The electric ForTwo became the unquestioned no-brainer in Smart car desirability. One of the challenges for battery electric ve

Think of the Smart car as mobile urban jewellery. It exists to both move you and complement your image. The 2017 Smart Fortwo Prime – with its devilish sneer and aggressive downward stance, a tongue-in-cheek bold look like a toddler in biker leathers – is a nose ring for your driveway. If all those solo commuters in SUVs and crossovers we

GENEVA, Switzerland – Cheap and playful fun in the sun. That’s what the current and outgoing gas-powered 2017 Smart ForTwo Convertible offers. Yet once the all-electric version of the tiny two-seater replaces it later this year, Smart is going to go big on the fun and the cheap. Fun and nimbleness with an urban chic The fun – from t

With reluctant field research and content input by Orson Bochenek From the beginning, Smart cars were pitched as the perfect vehicle for the urban animal. This February, Daimler announced that as of next year new North American Smart cars would all be electric. Their decision makes sense: gasoline smoke is clogging city dwellers’ lungs and nose

Smart unveiled their latest concept today that takes the tiny-two seat platform and makes it into something extremely futuristic. The connected concept has a bus-like front display, ad-ready side glass doors, and a ride share service that sounds more like a dating app. And no steering wheel or pedals.  The Smart Vision EQ Fortwo is the Smart ext

Mercedes-Benz Canada has confirmed that the Smart brand will be going away in Canada and the United States at the end of this model year. Smart first launched in 1998 as a partnership between SMH, the company that made Swatch watches, and Mercedes parent company Daimler-Benz. The goal was to produce city cars with a little more funk than the typ

Smart is dropping their gas engine in favour of electric power only for Canada and the US, according to a letter obtained by Automotive News . The letter was to Smart dealers from Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Dietmar Exler, letting them know to expect the change. The gas-powered Smart Fortwo coupe and convertible will be dropped after the 2017 model

Mercedes-Benz Canada has announced that the electric-only 2017 Smart Fortwo will go on sale later this summer at a starting price of $28,000 for coupe models, and $31,800 for the drop-top cabriolet variant. Those price tags don't include provincial plug-in vehicle rebates, which total $13,000 in Ontario, $8,000 in Quebec and $5,000 in British

Smart has just unveiled their all new Fortwo and Forfour Electric Drive models at the Paris Motor show. The new powertrain choice will arrive in Canada in early 2017 for the coupe and you'll be able to get an electric Fortwo cabrio as well by early summer, but the Forfour won't be available in North America. Smart states that the cabrio is the only

Day 3: Picking Up the Pace Fancy AirScarf features and massaging, heated seats, but where’s the challenge in that? Provinces Checked Off Quebec Ontario Convertibles Driven 2017 Smart ForTwo Cabriolet Local Cuisine Sampled Crepes with maple butter It would be easy to simply snag the keys to the big money Benz