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NEW YORK (AP) - At just 8 feet, 8 inches long and about 5 feet wide, the two-seat Smart car turned heads as it rolled through Manhattan one recent evening at rush hour.Pedestrians in Tim...
http://autos.aol.com/article/smart-car-for-youThis monthly column presents crucial, stand-alone car-buying strategies to help you avoid dealership tricks and traps and get the best price on your next car.Struggling U.S. automakers u...
http://autos.aol.com/article/smart-car-shoppingWASHINGTON (May 14) - The 2008 Smart Fortwo micro car , the smallest car for sale in the U.S. market, has earned top scores in crash tests conducted by the insurance industry. The...
http://autos.aol.com/article/smart-car-crash-ratingsWASHINGTON - Sometimes, I guess, timing is everything. When DaimlerChrysler AG announced in 2006 that it planned to bring the Smart fortwo micro car to the United States after nearly a d...
http://autos.aol.com/article/smart-car-waitlistDETROIT (AP) - DaimlerChrysler AG will team with former auto racer and businessman Roger Penske to sell its funky two-seat Smart car in the U.S. starting early in 2008, the automaker's C...
http://autos.aol.com/article/chrysler-smart-carAn impractical oversized roller skate or the future of urban motoring? The Smart Car is part of the permanent exhibits at New York's Museum of Modern Art , so clearly someone quite likes...
http://autos.aol.com/article/2008-smart-fortwoLet's paint a picture ... (cue the 'Jaws' theme music). Your hands are trembling from the anticipation -- no -- the fear of what lies ahead. A vast sea of warm black asphalt, its surface covered with ...
http://autos.aol.com/article/smart-car-shopping-101SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Sometimes big headaches come in small packages.That's what a California company called Zap (ZP) has discovered in trying to import the tiny, European-made Smart car....
http://autos.aol.com/article/us-smart-carsIt's a typical morning in Los Angeles, which is to say that traffic is locked up solid.I'm sitting in a 2001 ZAP Smart Fortwo looking at a long line of cars, trucks and SUVs snaking into...
http://autos.aol.com/article/driving-smartSmart fortwoby Andrew BornhopSmart cars -- those 2-seaters you see in Paris or Rome that are tiny enough to be parked on the side of the road, perpendicular to traffic -- are fina...
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