Smart Fortwo micro mini car to start selling in U.S. this January!
The 8-foot, 8-inch Smart Fortwo micro car comes to U.S. shores in January, and even with gasoline prices well above the $3-a-gallon mark it remains to be seen whether Americans will flock to buy the tiny, two-seater car.
Ranging in price from $11,590 for the base version to $16,590 for a fully loaded Fortwo Passion convertible, the 1,800-pound car boasts 40 miles per gallon — a big draw for drivers worried about high gas prices.
Smart has already sold more than 770,000 Fortwos in 36 countries, and Smart USA is banking on robust sales in the United States. The Smarts on sale here will be made in France and sold through 73 U.S. dealers, including Mercedes dealers and dealerships that are part of the Penske Automotive Group owned by racing icon Roger Penske. Penske is chairman of Smart USA, a division of Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz brand.
I am sure some people will buy this tiny little car. I can’t see the majority of American’s switching from their huge gas guzzling SUV’s to be jam packed into this tiny little deathtrap. I actually am surprised that they allowed this thing to be sold in the U.S., aren’t there some kind of safety regulations that cars have to pass before they can be drivin on the roads? You can’t just build a car at home and then drive it around, can you?
The next thing they’ll come out with is a bicycle with a clear plastic bubble around it.
Craziest fucking fortwo driver – You are a fucking moron.
Francesco – You’re joking, right? Your second-to-last paragraph comes off as extremely ignorant. Great journalism, as is typical with bloggers. You can’t just get a PeeCee and spread your BS uninformed opinions around, can you?
In Europe, where safety standards are *higher* than in the US, the smart achieved a 4-star crash test rating *without* airbags — which will come on all North American smarts. Most North American cars, pickups and SUVs haven’t been able to achieve a 4-star rating using the *lower* NHTSA standards.
So next time you care to spread your BS, do it in the furroughs out back with the John Deere.
Aliza R. – Yes, there are safety regulations. And yes, this car passes them all, with flying colours. It ranks as safe as the Mercedes C-class, which isn’t surprising, since it’s made by Mercedes. Which is rather far from “home made”!
There are different ways to make a car safe. Some car manufacturers use oodles of sheet metal, others use their brains. The smart is… well, smart. It’s loaded with really cool technology, the people are surrounded by a steel cage, and the crash forces are BELOW the passengers (you sit fairly high up). Did you know that many of those “huge gas guzzler SUVs” actually fare rather poorly in crash tests? Look it up: it’s scary. so, it’s not the smart that’s the deathtrap…
700,000 have alraedy sold– and some have been in crashes, so it’s been proven to be safe. As well as reliable, cute, really fun to drive, and fuel economical.
admin – Ok, I am a moron….
I will see who is the moron when your head gets taken off by an SUV’s bumper.
Oh, and by the way, you are going to look like a real idiot driving around in this clown car! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Craziest fortwo driver in the world – Naw, your SUV could never keep up with a smart – and you’d flip, trying to take the first corner!
running dude – you haven’t done all your research about the fortwo.
smart Driver – Three paragraphs copied from other sources, and one pulled out from where the sun doesn’t shine; not bad for a hack journalist.
You would have some credibility if you actually did some research before posting cr@p like this.
MG
admin – By all the defensive comments here obviously my opinion on this toy car are correct. Sorry to burst your bubble on this toy!
s mart – Go figure yet another fucktard who think he’s a journalist, get your head out from below your latest teabag shit for brains and do a little research, typical asshole…….any time you want to do a head on with your North American piece of asscheese let me know…. then we will see who the real bitch is…..
Smart. World’s Best Car – Where the hell did the guy who wrote this article come from? What a fool! He’s going to find out that an awful lot of Americans are smarter than he is. If this fine Mercedes Benz car is a deathtrap, then why is it nobody has died? Name one car that is better. There are none, at any price!