DESPITE making more mainstream cars in the shape of the forfour, smart is still seen as something of a left-field choice. The tiny plastic-bodied cars are omnipresent in busy town and city centres, ...

Smart is working intensively on alternative drives and one of these is now going into series production. The smart forfour lpg (liquified petroleum gas) combines the petrol engines (47, 55, 70 or 80 ...

Engines range from 1.0 to 1.5 Readers report Real MPG to be between 28–68 mpg At first, the steering of the 1.1 felt a bit sticky and dead compared to the featherlight Colt. But I soon get used to it ...

Last year took plenty of cars out of production, some good, some forgettable. One more didn't make it to 2022 and it's gone without anyone noticing. The Smart Forfour is dead as the automaker gears up ...

September 12, 2005 smart has a surprise in store for visitors to this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) which opens later today: the world premiere of the smart hybrid crosstown show car. With ...

Update: Smart reached out to us and clarified that it has no plans for a direct successor to the original ForFour, and we’ve ...

London, England - British engineering consultancy Zytek has developed a novel diesel/battery hybrid power train that, it says, will be affordable in the most popular market segments. It's been ...

Although a new forfour would have been interesting, the fortwo-replacing #2 makes way more sense in the UK and European Union ...

Smart could consider a successor to the Forfour as it looks to justify the huge cost of creating the incoming #2’s new ...

The Smart ForFour shares the visual appeal of a MINI, but does not have the same driving excitement. The manual box is fine, but the automatic is still a problem if you like a smooth gearchange.

The Smart Fortwo is a known quantity. It’s the expensive novelty you often see strewn haphazardly on snippets of unclaimed urban streetscape, especially in Europe. It survives because of Daimler ...