BEING in a smart fortwo-owning family, I can vouch for just how innovative, cheap to run and downright handy the little car is. As a second car, or a city runabout, it’s perfect. But its limitations ...

Hello . A little advice is required before I jump in . Thinking of changing my car for no reason other than i fancy a change . The two cars on my shopping list are a Citroen c2 vts 1.6 hdi 2007 , with ...

FEW manufacturers can have done so much to introduce automated manual transmissions to the masses than smart. The original smart city – now smart fortwo – was and still is only available with a ...

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.

"Have faith," I insisted, with fingers crossed. "It's a smart car." I had heard great things about this "Mini-Me" vehicle: tough, comfortable, reliable, revolutionary even, part of the Mercedes-Benz ...

Top of the hip hop heap from the day it hit the road, the Jazz has been dethroned as the king of cool by Smart's Forfour. The funk factor starts with the name – Forfour – chosen because Smart's latest ...

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 ...

Smart cars are still a rare sight on Australian roads. And it's no surprise. In a land of plentiful space, vast distances and comparatively cheap fuel, demand for tiny and fuel-efficient two-seaters, ...

Big brother to the new Smart ForTwo, and first cousin to the new Renault Twingo. The ForFour shares its hard points with Renault’s smartly packaged new city car, and is built at the French firm’s ...

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 ...