Hi,
Smart cars are made by the Micro Compact City Car Company based in Hambach, Germany.
They were orginally designed as a joint venture between Swatch (the watch people!!) and Mercedes Benz. When Swatch pulled out at the design stage, Mercedes took complete control.
The cars are built around a 597cc Mercedes Engine (although they are not abdged as Mercs!!!). they seat two people and are designed to be comftable for two 6'6" people.
The basically shell of the car is a Tridium roll cage covered with interchangable plastic panels. This means that you can change panels adn therefore colours/designs freely.
They are currently only on general release in Europe with imports available to the USA. However they will go on sale in the US shortly.
There are several 'flavours' of the car: City (standard) Coupe and Cabriolets, and Roadster Coupe or Cabriolets are currently on sale. Launching shortly will be a five door four seater version named Smart ForFour and next year will see the preview of the Smart FourFour which is a four wheel drive version.
Smart owners are considered to be of far superior intelligence to other drivers and are generally very cool to be around.
We can generally be found lurking at
Funkysmart or if you live in Northamptonshire we descend on Billing Aquadrome en masse for a summer camping party in Jun!!!!!
A Typical Smart car owner
BTW, Smart Car Owners are known as Smarties, because we have all the answers!!!