Funky Cars > Pint-Sized Vehicles Making Their Way Across the Atlantic . . . Safely

[2-Speed] DaimlerChrysler's Smart Car division has been spending gobs of money trying to make their diminutive vehicles acceptable to the US government and to American consumers as well. Compared to what Americans are used to, these things are microscopic. 

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http://smartblog.wordpress.com  smartbrand.biz :: successful marketing by design: Take the Fourtwo electric car, now being produced by Smartcar of America. According to the website: “Daimler Chrysler’s latest special edition, Smart ForTwo Edition Red, will phase out the existing Fortwo and make way for the new 2008. (via Cosmos)

http://journals.aol.com/tks333/ramblings  Ramblings from the edge...: Nelson doesn't attempt to demonize Jim Jones but instead paints a picture of the man, interweaving composites of interviews from surviving members of the Peoples Temple, archival audio and video footage; all of which coalesces together to produce a haunting collage of complexity and contradiction. (via Cosmos)

pasta and vinegarhttp://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog  pasta and vinegar: looking at the new Citroën C-Métisse concept car, I was thinking about the roles of concept-car and then I ran across this definition by Smart; which I found interesting because it’s given from the viewpoint of the company. (via Cosmos)

[Autoblog.com] Autoblog: In it, you'll see one of the official Mercedes-produced videos showing a Smart colliding with a larger MB sedan and looking pretty good afterward (though if you put a gun to our heads, we'd likely pick the Benz as the ride to be seated in for that scenario). That's just part of the vid's setup, however, as the main portion features Tiff Needlell showing us what happens when a remote-controlled Smart smashes into a concrete barrier at highway speed.

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