Automobile Smart 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 - Does Size Matter?

We embark on a 650-mile journey through the Wild West to find out if the Smart lives up to its name. 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

2008 Smart ForTwo

Smart stops in Ann Arbor on its cross-country road show, Automobile staffers line up to drive the 2008 ForTwo. more

2008 Smart ForTwo - Road Test

You don't really want to know how bad the first Smart was. What counts today is that its replacement--which will be sold by Roger Penske's UnitedAuto Group when it arrives in the States in early 2008--is dynamically superior in almost all respects. It rides we more

2007 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet Photo Gallery

The Smart brand is finally coming to the United States. Check out these shots of the Fortwo cabriolet cruising the streets of New York City. 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

2005 Smart ForFour

Smart, Mercedes-Benz's hip, minicar brand, has branched out from its initial, pod-like, two-seater and added a targa-topped Roadster and the four-door ForFour; we recently had a chance to drive the latter in Spain. more

Smart-Brabus Roadster V6

Drop a twin-turbo V-6 into a Smart roadster, and you have a riot on your hands. This might be America's first smart. more

Smart Roadster and Coupe

With as much fun as frugality, Mercedes' newest minicar looks to play in Peoria as well as in Paris. more