Smart Features Articles

How To Spend Your Summer Vacation: Five Convertibles for Summer 2009

There's no better way to celebrate the season's first warm breezes than by sliding behind the wheel of a convertible. But which drop-top should you drive? more

2009 February Auto Sales: Going Nowhere Fast

Although the figures are a tiny bit better than January's, which is a typical pattern, they're still more than 40 percent lower than a year ago. more

Smart Fortwo Performs Smartly in IIHS Crash Testing

How does the diminutive Fortwo perform in a collision? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety puts the Smart car to the test. more

2008 Smart ForTwo Pricing Announced

Smart has finally released pricing for its teensy ForTwo, which goes on sale in the first quarter of 2008. more

Smart in the U.S.? Automobile Magazine Staffer Opinions

With the Smart Fortwo finally coming here, there has been plenty of water cooler talk at the Automobile Magazine home office. more

Smart for Dummies

The news that Roger Penske will distribute Smart cars in the United States hits very hard. In fact, I feel betrayed. The man who has been responsible for so much great racing and for nothing more odious than yellow rental trucks is introducing these daffy litt more

Smart: A Small History of the Smallest Car

The Smart Fortwo--originally called the City Coupe--started it all for the Smart brand in 1998 when it first went on sale in Europe. As it is the only model still in production, the Fortwo is the model coming to the U.S. next year. It is only 98.4 inches long an more