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The smart marque began as a collaboration between Volkswagen and the Swiss watch brand Swatch. After VW pulled out from the project, Daimler-Benz stepped in to provide the vehicle architecture.
The first smart brand car was launched in 1998. The car was a short two-seat city car. The car was known as the Smart City Coupe and Smart City Cabriolet.
A second line was added in 2003 the Smart Roadster (R452) shown, and the Smart Roadster Coupe (C452). The two shared the basic architecture and design, differing primarily in the Roadster having a flat luggage/engine lid behind the rollbar, while the Roadster Coupe had a glass hatch section in the place. Both cars had a removable 'targa' panel over the two occupants, spanning the windscreen and the rollbar.
The Roadster and Roadster Coupe also shared many mechanical systems with the Smart city car (to be renamed Smart Four-Two in 2004), including the engine/transmission systems and suspension. The Smart Roadster and Roadster Coupe had a much lower set 'Tridion' safety cell.
For such an appealing compact sportscar, the Smart Roadster had a short lifespan, being removed from market at the end of 2005.
A new DMU trainset lays over at the San Rafael station, currently the inner terminal of this new line. Spetember 11, 2017. © 2017 Peter Ehrlich
2001 MCC Smart Pulse Semi-Auto - with a difference.
I think this is used by a pizza shop in Edinburgh's Murrayfield area.
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One of DB Cargo's much smarter Class 66s, 66 094, runs light engine through Acton Bridge from Warrington Bank Quay to Ditton Foundry Lane to work the 6O17 service to Dollands Moor later in the evening.
66094, which received its smart up-to-date livery in December last year, reversed at Hartford Junction and then ran back north through Acton Bridge a short while later to then head to Ditton.
Direct Rail Services 68001 'Evolution' and 68026 looking smart despite the rain at Kingmoor Depot at the Direct Rail Services open day.
The Smart brand is the Daimler-Benz corporations attempt to reach urban trendoids with a car of miniature proportions.
The car (in the version shown here) only seats two, and mounts the compact engine under the rear luggage area.
One notional value of the car is to park in very small spaces - two Smarts will fit into approximately the same length of the company's larger S-Class luxury car.
The MkiII model shown here was only launched in 2015, following the 1998 introduction of the MkI and the 2007 introduction of the MkII. Other versions of the Smart have also been available - the ForFour - a 4-seat version platform shard with the Mitsubishi Colt, and the Smart Coupe/Roadster, a low-slung 2-seater using a modified FourTwo chassis. None of the additional version have enjoyed much success.
In many ways the Smart is a car whose time has not yet arrived - the car does not drive particularly well, and the trendy urban dwellers could well just use Uber and other car-sharing services.
Um, I did a thing. I can't add to this collection too crazily because they are quite expensive. But I have been eyeing these kinds of dolls and finally decided to go for it and I'm not sorry! I love them! And this picture with Mittens is the perfect way to introduce them :)
Neysa makes an ordinary street look good! Looking street smart, sassy & sweet in polka dots and black boots.
A Domino's Pizza Smart car, parked up tucked away in Camberley. The nearest store being a couple of miles away in Sandhurst.
Enviro 400 YY14 LHJ (Arriva Midlands 4405) and Scania Omnicity YR58 SSK (Arrive Midlands 3559) depart Derby bus station
A Lisbon Line 12 Castelo Circulação service heads away from Martim Moniz. Eléctrico tram 560 looked smart in the basic Carris fleet livery.
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