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The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
With U.S. orders pouring in for its miniscule smart fortwo, Mercedes is wishing it hadn't cut the larger forfour from production. At the Detroit Auto Show, Benz honcho Rainer Schmückle revealed that a second-gen forfour was in consideration, although the decision hadn't been made to brand it as a smart or a Merc. Now MotorAuthority is showing a Schulte Design rendering of a potential successor to...
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AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Filed under: SMART The original smart ForFour was based on the underpinnings of the Mitsubishi Colt and was phased out due to slow sales. Daimler may not be giving up on the idea of a four passenger smart car, though, and according to Motor Authority , the new ForFour could be a stretched version of the ForTwo, which might make it a bit simpler to produce. The same 3 cylinder engine could be used...
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Top Speed (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
Posted on 02.1.2008 09:00 by Simona Alina Filed in: Smart | hatchback | Smart Forfour | future cars Post a comment Smart Forfour went out of production in the middle of 2006. The decision came because of the low sales and the huge loses caused by the model. But at the moment, Daimler is taking very seriously the possibility of the return of the Smart model. The reasons are very simple: the future...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/23/2007
Here are a headline and a picture caption you may not remember: “The boy racer challenge”. “Lewis Hamilton, with his little Smart Forfour, has his eyes on something bigger: a Formula One win”. They appeared in these pages a year ago and accompanied an article on the then virtually unknown 21-year-old driver from Hertfordshire.
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/15/2007
Smart has no plans to revive the Smart ForFour, its four-seat version, or the Smart Roadster sports car as it launches the vehicle in the United States, said Dave Schembri, president of Smart USA.
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Just Auto (Free subscription) | 06/18/2007
We've a piece today from Guy Bird looking at the Mitsubishi i-Car and plans for an electric version. When I first glimpsed the i-Car I thought it looked like what the Smart ForFour should have been - a kind of elongated Smart City-Coupe. And now it looks like Mitsubishi has got another 'smart' idea in making an electric version, too.
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China Car Times (Free subscription) | 06/07/2007
China Car Times was unaware that Smart cars were being imported into China, either officially or unofficially, we only know that they come with a hefty price tag once they are here. The Smart ForFour is being reported as being sold from a dealer in Beijing, however, China Car Times understands that the Smart have [...]
