Smart Automobiles Blog

We sometimes forget that Twitter is more than just about snide celebrity comments, the location of your favorite food truck, or yet another distraction for teens and twentysomethings behind the wheel. Smart Argentina used the short messaging service to do an innovative animated campaign for its Fortwo microcar in the ...    Read more

German tuner Brabus will be showing off the smart Brabus electric drive and the smart Brabus ebike at the Geneva Motor Show this week. The two electric motor-powered concepts have been tweaked for more performance Smart Brabus electric drive Propulsion for the Smart Brabus Fortwo electric drive comes from an ...    Read more

BMW and Mercedes-Benz’s rivalry for the luxury car lead continued into February, with BMW and its all-new 2013 3 Series taking the reins from Mercedes-Benz and its 2012 C-Class. In other German sales news, Volkswagen reported yet another record ...    Read more

The diminutive Smart Fortwo is being facelifted for the European market, with the new model set to on sale in the U.S. in May. Aside from visual changes, the Fortwo continues on without any mechanical changes. The transformation begins with a new front larger grille, and Smart's logo is now centered ...    Read more

The Volkswagen Jetta and Passat helped VW reach 27,209 sales in January of 2012, making it the best selling German automaker in the United States, and giving it its best January since 1974. Among the luxury automakers, Mercedes-Benz took the lead over BMW with its 6525 C-Classes helping push it ...    Read more

City-dwelling pickup-lovers rejoice -- Smart pulled the wraps off of the For-Us Concept today at the Detroit auto show. While the bed of a 139.2-inch long Smart pickup may not be very useful, the micro-car maker showed it off with a bike rack and the brand's electric bicycle concept. The look ...    Read more

You might have noticed that this December 2011 German auto sales roundup is out a day later than sales from the rest of the world. There’s a very good reason for that: BMW and Mercedes-Benz’s rivalry. Both automakers reported record sales and were neck and neck to take the title ...    Read more

U.K. tuner Project Kahn has proudly shared a photo of music label executive and television personality Simon Cowell driving a car with Kahn components. Cowell’s Smart Fortwo wears special 17-inch wheels designed by Project Kahn specifically for the small city car. The 20-spoke wheel designs are featured on Project Kahn’s Smart ...    Read more

Smart is set to receive updates for model year 2013, with the electric ForTwo receiving the most significant changes. The electric Smart, however, will be delayed due to a problem with the new battery. According to a report from Automotive News, the electric ForTwo will now launch in September 2012, instead ...    Read more

Been away from your computer this week and missed all the automotive news? We’ve gathered a few of the top stories of the past week for your convenience. 2013 Dodge Dart: A New Small Car With An Old Name Dodge is bringing back the Dart -- well, the name at least. ...    Read more

Small electric cars frequently come short in two regards: cargo space and limited range. The Smart ForTwo ED is no exception, but Rinspeed -- that crazy Swiss tuning firm that brought you the submersible Lotus Elise years ago -- may have a solution. Behold the Dock+Go. The name is ...    Read more

A Smart pickup? We’d never imagined such a creation before, but judging by the new For-us concept, which debuts in January at the 2012 Detroit auto show, the designers at Smart apparently have. While the For-us is apparently on the existing ForTwo convertible, the For-us is a little bit bigger. At ...    Read more

Nearly all the German carmakers continued to post sales increases this past month, with Porsche being the sole exception. Other German automakers reported a general increase in sales ranging from 3.6 percent (Audi) to a whopping 96 ...    Read more

Smart is still working toward launching a four-door model, which could debut by 2015. According to Automotive News, the new Smart ForFour would have a rear-mounted engine and rear-wheel drive. The new ForFour would be built on the same platform as the new ForTwo. That two-seater is expected to be redesigned ...    Read more

Bigger is not always better, and Smart is launching a new ad campaign to serve as a refresher for future car buyers that its micro-cars make a big statement. Smart recognizes the U.S. is obsessed with all things big: Big Macs, big SUVs, ...    Read more

Smart has teamed up with German fashion brand WeSC, to create a hip-looking Fortwo that debuted this week at the Frankfurt Motor Show. WeSC (We are the Superlative Conspiracy) is a Stockholm-based skateboard-style clothing company that is working ...    Read more

How should automakers improve the range of electric cars? Smart believes it has the answer with an even more eco-friendly version of the Fortwo Electric Drive for the Frankfurt Motor Show. Called the Forvision concept, the Smart has unusual components like plastic wheels and a semi-transparent roof which help ...    Read more

Two very different electric-powered vehicles from Daimler’s Smart brand are readying for launch, including the third-generation Smart Fortwo Electric Drive and the pedal-driven, electric-assisted Smart ebike. A further developed and refined version of the car we had this past year, the third-generation Fortwo Electric Drive benefits from customer feedback, ...    Read more

Despite all evidence to the contrary, Smart isn’t simply resting on its laurels and allowing the compact Fortwo to sell slowly. The company has released a special-edition model for the European market, and will soon revive the roadster model and launch a new small crossover. The special-edition car is called the ...    Read more

Who better to star in a Chinese advertising campaign for the Smart Fortwo than L.A. Lakers player Kobe Bryant? Well, perhaps homegrown NBA star Yao Ming, but it was Kobe who got a gig to help shill Smarts in China. This lighthearted video highlights the benefits of the ...    Read more

Smart has covered its ForTwo model in nearly every vinyl graphic design imaginable, but it had yet to transform one of its microcars into a disco ball. That all changed when the European band Apparatjik commissioned such a vehicle for its upcoming project. Created for European electronic group Apparatjik, ...    Read more

In order to maximize the small amount of allotted time for press conferences at this year's Geneva Motor Show, Mercedes combined its time with Smart to show one big brand building image that included old cars, new cars and even a concept. Mercedes started out the day with a brief introduction ...    Read more

Smart has finally taken the wraps off the sporty little roadster we previously caught in patent renderings. One thing not disclosed in those crude line renderings? The concept, now dubbed Forspeed, is a pure electric vehicle. Beneath the Forespeed’s skin lies the same powertrain found in the ...    Read more

Smart models have always been manufactured by Mercedes-Benz, but until now, they’ve never been sold in the U.S. by Mercedes-Benz. The company announced today that it is moving to take over the brand’s U.S. distribution network from Penske Automotive in the second quarter of 2011. When Penske partnered with ...    Read more

Not all car enthusiasts come from the same mold. Sure we accept there are guys who spend all weekend polishing all 320 individual chrome spokes on their car’s wheels rather than actually burning the tires off, but they still like the smell of gas and the roar of an open ...    Read more