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smart debuted in America the National Lease Program
 The smart division in North America just announced the debut of its 1st lease program (nationally) via Daimler Financial Services. This brand new program of lease is now available for all those new units from smart and will be therefor offered in 48, 36 and 24 months increments. Jill Lajdziak, smart USA President, stated for the press 'Our new lease program allows customers added flexibility with financing options and allows smart customers to enjoy leasing benefits such as low monthly payments, driving a new vehicle every two-to-three years and ease of vehicle turn-ins'.Lajdziak continued 'Given our strong residual value performance we are in position to ...
Tags: fortwo, leasing, daimler, smart
Daimler shows off the sharing service on car2go
 A brand new car project involving sharing pilot debuted this week in North America, thanks to an agreement between Daimler – the maker and the City of Austin. It's called car2go and it's the 1st pilot phase begins with two hundred smart fortwo cars and a users defined group. Sometime next year, the amount of vehicles will be raised and the car2go model will be accessible to all students and residents in Austin.'car2go is an innovative answer to current and future mobility needs in urban areas' affirmed Thomas Weber, Board of Management of Daimler AG member, responsible with the Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development, ...
Tags: car2go, smart, fortwo, austin, daimler, sharing-service
Smart ForTwo HighStyle debuts on British market
 The German automaker Smart has enlarged the range of models available on the British market. More precisely, they added the Smart ForTwo Edition HighStyle to their current range of models available on the UK market. The special edition Smart ForTwo Edition HighStyle has interesting features like ``HighStyle`` logos, a chocolate brown metallic finish, a silver tridion safety cell and twelve spoke 15 inch alloy wheels. Moving on towards the interior, we find other features including a leather trimmed gear knob, heated leather metallic silver seats with leather optic door inserts, a three spoke leather steering wheel, upper and lower dashboards and matt silver detailing throughout ...
Tags: fortwo, highstyle, edition, debuts, british, market, smart
Luxurious edition of Smart ForTwo launched
 The German automaker Smart seems to be very busy lately. Now, they have announced the launch of their latest project. Their latest project is a special edition model, in the good tradition of Smart. Thus, their latest project is called Smart ForTwo Edition Highstyle that, as the name suggests, is basically a luxury edition of the Smart ForTwo. The main features of the luxurious Smart ForTwo consist of special color schemes and finer materials. To be more precise, the special edition Smart ForTwo Edition Highstyle has features like ``Edition Highstyle`` logos in aluminum look, chocolate brown metallic finish and 15 inch twelve spoke ...
Tags: fortwo, highstyle, edition, luxurious, smart
Production of the electric Smart ForTwo starts in November
 The German automaker Smart has announced today that the first Smart ForTwo Electric Drive from the second generation will be finished at the production line located in the city of Hambach, France sometime in the middle of the month of November. The electric Smart ForTwo will get its power from a lithium-ion battery made by Tesla Motors. As most of you know, Daimler, the owner of Smart , has bought 10% of Tesla Motors. At the beginning the second generation Smart ForTwo Electric Drive will be available to buyers from Berlin and a couple other European and North American cities. The Smart ...
Tags: electric, drive, fortwo, production, smart, november
Daimler down in July with 11 percent in sales
 Like all the other carmakers, Daimler saw in July a 11 percent sales drop, amounting to 93,900 cars. Mercedes-Benz delivered alone most of the models, 83,500 exactly. Klaus Maier, Mercedes-Benz Cars sales and marketing vice president said in a release. 'The new E-Class has gotten off to a resounding start, and we have delivered more than 40,000 units to customers since the market launch in spring. The sedan once again defended its market leadership worldwide in July. The new coupe is also very popular with customers. The full availability of the E-Class sedan and coupe and the introduction of the station wagon and new-generation S-Class ...
Tags: daimler, sales, down, smart, mercedes, benz, japan, china, decrease
The 2010 Smart ForTwo willl be more powerful while having the same fuel consumption
 Smart has presented the 2010 ForTwo model. The new ForTwo has a revised diesel engine along with the petrol engines that have received a few small optimizations. The revised three cylinder diesel engine now develops 54 horsepower, which is 21% more in comparison to the previous engine. Also, the diesel engine has a maximum torque of 130 Nm, which is a higher level by 18% in comparison to the previous form of the engine. The revised diesel engine makes the Smart ForTwo more agile, the automobile that is part of the mini segment of cars manages to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h ...
Tags: smart, fortwo, 2010, diesel, powerful, efficient
Ford Ka probably coming to America
 The popular contender of Ford in the city auto department, Ka is quite popular in the European territory for its confident fuel economy, excellent handling and compact size. A benefit of this brand new Ford-Chrysler alliance is that the worldwide successful mini-auto of Ford will come to America. If the Ka unit ever does, then it will be competing alongside vehicles like Smart ForTwo, which the smallest auto sold today in the U.S.Due to the present Chrysler-FIAT concession, plus the fact Ford Ka is sharing the exact same platform like the Italian carmaker’s well known FIAT 500, this Ka model has a stronger case even ...
Tags: ford, ka, u.s., america
EV-maker Think building City car in America
 Think - Norwegian electric auto manufacturer just announced in Ann Arbor, Michigan, its plans for opening a plant in the US to supply the North American people with 60,000 small city autos per year. The carmaker afirms it is talking to 8 states about that assembly factory, that would employ initially about 3 hundred workers having a 16,000 TH!NK City cars (starting capacity).'The U.S. is quickly overtaking Europe as an attractive market for EVs and is an ideal location to engineer and build EVs,' Richard Canny - Think CEO afirmed in a statement for the media. 'We see ourselves playing a small but potentially ...
Tags: ev, think, city, america, u.s., usa
Smart ForTwo car2go
 Daimler debuted the mobility car2go concept providing answer (future-oriented) increasing in urban areas the traffic volume. The first real tests are in Germany, Ulm, on 24 October. A smart fortwo autos answer will be available in the city, or all citizens like a car pool, accessible when you want. With one-off registration process, all these smarts can now be spontaneously hired in passing, pre-booked, used as desired. This concept helps ensuring that a reliable car is available any time, minutes away.“Car2go is an intelligent and creative solution that provides a simple, flexible and value-for-money approach to mobility with environmentally-friendly vehicles” says Dr. Dieter Zetsche, CEO ...
Tags: car2go, smart, fortwo
- january 2007
Smart fortwo coupe
2-doors, cabriolet
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 204 km/h- august 2004
Smart fortwo cabrio
5-doors, mpv
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 150 km/h- january 1987
Smart city-coupe
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 178 km/h- january 1987
Smart city-coupe cabrio
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 178 km/h- january 1987
Smart crossblade
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 153 km/h- january 1987
Smart forfour
4-doors, sedan
- Fuel: diesel
Topspeed: 153 km/h- january 1983
Smart roadster
5-doors, stationwagon
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 187 km/h- january 1986
Smart roadster-coupe
5-doors, stationwagon
- Fuel: petrol
Topspeed: 200 km/h
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