#Smart Fortwo

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2011 Smart Fortwo art

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Smart Fortwo. 1998

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1997 Smart advertisement

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Who's bright idea was it to use a Smart car as a taxi?

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This is a car worth spotlighting!

Not just this fantastic example, but the Smart Car itself! (That's not an official name, btw. We'll get to those.)

The CEO of Swatch, the group that dared ask "What if small, economical, plastic, customizable and tells the time?", dared ask "What if small, economical, plastic, customizable and is car?", and Volkswagen seemed to think it was a good question.

However, '93 would put the emphasis on seemed, when the move of disagreer Ferdinand Piëch from leading Audi to the whole VW group and canned the project - both disagreeing with the 2-seater idea (which, to be fair to it, was based on research showing the average Eruopean car only had 1.2 passengers) and believing they could make a small car by themselves (and to be fair to him, they did end up making the fantastic Volkswagen Lupo and Audi A2).

Fortunately, however, Mercedes was also interested in the idea, having made similar considerations in the past, and the following year the world would be introduced to the result of their partnership:

MCC.

The MCC eco-sprinter concept car, since tan and green was just far too mundane for an interior, was accompanied by an open top MCC Eco-Speedster,

and oh boy.

Now that puts even OP's car to shame.

Mercifully, the Micro Car Company would later deviate from the name of a character in a middle school science book rapping about the speed of light, and its cars' shape would deviate from...

...this.

It would also, however, deviate from Swatch's ideas hard enough for leave Mercedes to continue alone - though their contribution would be nodded to by the new name: s(watch)m(ercedes)art.

But worry not, the following concept car would reassure the viewing public that funkiness was not deviated from at all.

And sure, everyone can make a concept car with a funky interior - and frankly, it's rare that anyone doesn't. It's arguably the favorite victim of the harsh reality of mass production, to the point that the most many car world veterans dare hope for is that any interesting detail survives the watering down.

And, despite my dogged efforts to market this blog to the uninitiated, I'm well aware most of my readers know it too.

So why don't I just post the production spec interior?

Well, I have a better question:

Why don't you just get pranked?

This is a production spec interior. Everything you see in this picture was officially built and sold by the Mercedes group. This is a factory Smart CityCoupe people could and did order and buy and use to roam around.

And as you can see from this dramatization, they were damn comfortable while doing so!

And they could even spec further options, like a tape deck, a rev counter, a clock ("What if small, economical, plastic, customizable and is car and tells the time?")...

...and some truly heinous color combos!

But worry not, the weird was far from stuck indoors!

Check out this CityCoupe's subtle colorway!

Or how about this one from after the car was facelifted in 2002 and its name changed for the final time into Smart ForTwo?

I mean, look at that. Tell me, even if like me you're a European accustomed to seeing swaths of them the moment you step in a city, that is not one of the funkiest mainstream vehicles of its day - if not one of the most outstanding.

This is the Smart's cell, dubbed "Tridion". And if giving your car's frame a name seems self-impressed: America's Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) called its safety "average". And at 2.54m car, America's classification system calls its size half of "midsize". This 90s design is as safe as the cars driven by the people making these dumb fucking memes.

The Smart crash is my personal 'identifying as an attack helicopter' - when you make that joke I automatically know you're someone who doesn't want reality to spoil their fun.

And the reality is that the Smart is an amazing little thing.

Even before Mercedes tuner Brabus's fiddling.

Though it certainly doesn't hurt.

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question: if you liked this post, you might like those - or the blog’s Discord server, linked in the pinned post!

the car tower has donned its gay apparel.

(see my car tag for other pics of its glory)

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Old, New & Very Small -- CFFC

Old, New & Very Small -- CFFC

Hi all 😃 My entry for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Cars. Some of these shots are courtesy of my wife, Susan.

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Cool car drawings

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2011 Smart Fortwo

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2020 Smart EQ Fortwo Convertible Electric Drive

My tumblr-blogs:

www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935

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so here's a question: wtf ever happened smart cars? you know, these fuckers

i used to hear about them all them time but now? nothing

did they just stop being popular or is there something else?

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Having a split tailgate and a rear engine means that a Smart Fortwo has the best features of both a Land Rover and a Ferrari.

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How would Holly be as a driver?

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time to give the people what they clearly want

Pre-dragon death, Holly would not have a driving licence or access to a car. extremely funny mental image nonetheless, this fucking thing walks into the dealership and asks for something spacious like an aygo or a smart fortwo. he's perfectly happy to be driven around by red at that point and loves it when they go really fast.

post-dragon death well he's a mounted knight so he does at least use a mode of transport that's not just his own tiny feet. he's more mature, more settled, and has a singular purpose (Protect Baby). so you'll be sitting in the back of his aygo because the rear-facing baby seat can only fit in the front. and you have to share the back with his gigantic ill-tempered dog.

he's got a david and goliath fighting style and that extends to driving. he is a defensive driver, constantly anticipating that other road users will either not see him there or just not respect him, so he holds his space on the road with unrelenting focus (although he could not see over the top of the wheel of an actual focus. a ka at most). he revs the fuck out of that tiny engine to get it anywhere quickly and the road noise is so bad you can't hold a conversation (not that you could anyway. dog lying across your lap). but you will be safe because Baby is in the car and Holly can never allow baby to come to any harm. rules of the road are followed properly, the car is legal, and he's not very talkative, but you reach your destination quickly and safely.

red would drive a tractor and take it up the motorway