I work for Mercedes Benz in Montvale, Nwe Jersey, and have been seeing
these for some time I got a chance to sit in one of the original ones..
In Europe they're available with a variety of power plant, but in North
America, they'll be introduced with just gasoline. Engines will be 4
cylinder Mercedes power plants.
Besides the "Fortwo" and "Forfour", there's also the "Formore", sort of
an SUV type.
Only the original car was designed by SWATCH. I'm not sure whhat they
called the Roadster. I've only heard it called the Smart Roadster.
don spence wrote:
> I spent the better part of Jan and Feb in the south of france and
> Paris. The Smart cars were everywhere! Designed by SWATCH and
> engineered by Daimler. The basic model is called the "fortwo" and it
> holds two. They have just introduced the "forfour" which of course has
> four doors and four seats. 8000 UK pounds. They also build a sports
> car,or roadster and a "Roadster-Coupe" for 12,000 UK pounds.
> I don't know about the states but they will be available in Canada
> soon, perhaps this fall.
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> The british distributor has a website at http://www.thesmart.co.uk/
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