Talk:Smart (marque)

message: There has got to be someone out there who thinks something else about this car... How about some ROI figures to justify this "smart" buy?75.200.169.225 (talk) 02:39, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about some criticism? 

message: An 1800 lb. microcar? Really? Original VW's and even Geo Metro's were 1500 lbs. and I never heard them called microcars. The smart is short, but it is also tall. But all these new small cars are big when compared with small cars from the 70's and earlier. Plus the gas mileage isn't what you would expect in a microcar. The new Mini's and Fiat's have little in common with the originals other than general shape and appearance. All these would be subcompact, or even compact when comparing weight and hp with cars from the 70's.Flight Risk (talk) 21:18, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microcar? Really?

message: Much of the information in this article is outdated or completely wrong.
---FoxMajik 19:21, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total Mess 

message: I took out a lot of the stuff about Zap moters because it sounded like a corporate shill.  For other people's reference, Zap says on their web site that they have "forged an exclusive technology licensing agreement with Smart-Automobile LLC allowing the certification of the Smart Car".  Smart-Automobile LLC is _not_ affiliated with Daimler-Chrysler.  Zap is not the only importer and may not even have been the first.  I also took out the part about "[the smart-car is not sold in the US] owing to a fear of possible market positioning confusion, Mercedes-Benz wishing to maintain an aura of high priced luxury that enables it to keep profit margins high. That aura is also used to cancel its B-Class program for the American market in light of escalating fuel prices."  because it strikes me as unlikely and as conjecture.  If someone has a citation they can put it back in. Jerdwyer 04:25, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We should at least mention them, since they are one of only a few distributors. --WhiteDragon 15:58, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distribution in US 

message: Hambach is in France (Lorraine), not Germany as someone just changed it to. It probably was in Germany some years ago...
Sorry!  I looked up Hambach on Google and all the results came up in German, so I jumped to the wrong conclusion.  -- Heron
Sources:
*http://www.libby.de/links/liste_hambach_uereg.htm
*http://www.smart.com/ Smart website: Micro Compact Car France, Ulrike Bianchi, Europole de Sarreguemines, F 57913, Hambach Cedex  Tel. 00 33 / 3 87 28 - 20 00 Fax 00 33 / 3 87 28 - 20 95
Alsace and Lorraine are natively German speaking but now part of France.  They were annexed by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War and taken back by France after WW I.  So the earliest Bugattis were German.  Most early Bugattis were 1500 cc and probably lighter than the Smart.  David R. Ingham 01:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the creator of Bugatti cars was Italian.  It just happened his factory was first in German territory and now what is French territory.  The cars are really no more French than they are German..
Well as the Brand Bugatti was bought by Volkswagen they are indeed German ;) (now) As well as Rolls Royce and Bentley who were bought by BMW and Volkswagen.
History should include EPA approval date.
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I was hoping wikipedia would tell more about engine/drive layouts, suspension, transmission etc. Smart certainly doesn't seem to want to hand out much info.
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Why has this page been moved? Smart (car) is the sensible page name. Please also justify using the lowercase 's', as we're not in the context of marketing the car. Hotlorp 00:27, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hambach 

message: Doesn't "Forfour" infringe on Morgan's 4/4?  David R. Ingham 02:57, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brand names 

message: I've tagged the section on distribution in the United States as copyright violation, since most of it is directly copied and pasted from an article available on the Daimler-Chrysler website. --benwildeboer  D(talk - contribs) 18:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation 

message: I tried to integrate some of the external links into footnotes where relevant, and I took out some really silly ones. Should more be done? I'm wondering about the smart car modification site and the MOMA expo, to be specific. Rkaufman13 15:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: This does not form a proper URL and is impossible to link to with the _(automobile) in the URL.  The page needs to be moved to a page with a standard name! 142.165.246.30 (talk) 15:55, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: URL format for linking to this page 

message: As the engine is rear-mounted, I question whether this vehicle is rear wheel, front-wheel or all-wheel drive. I can't see it mentioned anywhere.
trezjr (talk) 04:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The page for the ForTwo says it's RR, rear engine/wheel drive. John Nevard (talk) 05:32, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drive 

message: *What is the layout of the engine and transmission of this car??
*What is the weight of the different varieties of this car?
*Can it legally be driven on the highway in Europe or North America (because it is so tiny)?
*What is the top speed of the non-electric Smart car being sold in the U.S.?
Badagnani (talk) 21:48, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The smart can reach motorway speeds without any difficulty, and its legal status is no different from that of any other car on the road. I see them on the 401 and other major roads regularly, and that's the older version, which didn't have as good acceleration. I don't know the precise top speed, but certainly it's higher than any speed limit you're likely to encounter. David Arthur (talk) 22:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I found a brochure that gives its weight as 820 kg for the convertible, and 840 kg for the regular model. David Arthur (talk) 18:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  To add to article 

message: I'm seeing SMART cars buzzing around almost every day here in San Diego; they are becoming commonplace.  Yet the US section still refers to their future availability in the States etc.  Well ... the future is now.  Someone who cares more than I do should really update this with the latest info.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leeconte (talk • contribs) 16:09, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  US section outdated 

message: The smart ev section says 1998...should that be 2008? Andy Johnston (talk) 16:47, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smart EV 

message: At the 2010 Paris Motor Show Daimler's Smart division showed the new Smart ebike and Smart escooter. Future updates of the main Smart page should include these two products. For reference, here is the Daimler web page link discussing the Smart ebike and escooter and a reference to the Paris Motor Show: http://www.daimler.com/dccom/0-5-1335025-1-1337571-1-0-0-0-0-0-16694-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0.html
Now that the Smart brand appears to include a bike and a scooter, I would like to suggest that the title of the main article should be changed from Smart (automobile) to Smart (vehicle). (That is until they introduce the Smart toaster and Smart massage chair.) 
Since the Smart division seems to be fully integrated into the Daimler brand, I am thinking that the main Smart article might be better placed as part of the Daimler article. It might be better to just redirect searches for Smart vehicles to Daimler. Figlinus (talk) 19:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smart ebike and Smart escooter

message: Just going down the page you see the name Hayek without a first name (Nicholas only appears quite a way down and w/o link (he just died not long ago)) in its first occurrence. The page needs a real going over. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 22:54, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The page is a mess 

message: This car is going to take over the world (at least in US cities where people can't drive easily like SF.
If someone can tell me the best way to invest in this company, I'll spend some time updating the entry.
Send me email at bezenek@gmail.com.
Bezenek (talk) 04:38, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Investing 

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