Smart launch yet another Limited Edition – this time the Smart Fortwo Lightshine with 54bhp and 86g/gm CO2. Costs £11,405. You have to hand it to Mercedes – they don’t give up on Smart (or Maybach – another expensive departure). They keep churning out new cars (well, endless new limited editions, anyway) despite sales that […]
Mercedes installing EV charging at UK Dealers
Mercedes are rolling out Electric Car recharging points across their dealer network in the UK Maybe they planned it before the news that the new Government are considering withdrawing the planned subsidy for electric cars. Or maybe not. But whichever it is Mercedes has started installing EV charging stations at its UK dealers. So far […]
Smart ForTwo Edition Urbanstyle arrives
The Smart ForTwo Edition Urbanstyle has been release featuring a matt grey paint job and black leather interior with yellow detail. Just 160 will be made. Calm yourself. We can’t be 100% certain, but we think it’s highly likely that there is no such thing as a ‘Regular’ Smart. Whenever we come across a Smart […]
Smart ForTwo Edition Highstyle hits UK
Smart has announced a new limited edition model for the UK – the Smart ForTwo Edition Highstyle – with a high spec and custom chocolate brown paint job. Smart has a habit of making special editions. And this new Edition Highstyle is the latest to go on offer. It’s not exactly first knockings for the […]
Smart ForTwo Electric Drive Starts
Mercedes has announced that the Smart ForTwo Electric Drive will begin rolling of the production line in Hambach, France in November. But the Smart won’t be going on sale as such, instead being rolled out on a lease scheme throughout Europe and the US, before going on sale properly in 2010. This is a bit […]
Electric Smart (EV) to go in to production
Smart has been trialing its Smart EV for the last couple of years in the UK, with customers paying £375 per month for the joy of being a guinea pig for the little city car in electric form. Which actually seems like a huge amount of money to me, especially considering the benefits for Mercedes […]
Mercedes buys a stake in Tesla
Daimler (parent company of Mercedes-Benz) announced today at a press conference at the Mercedes Museum that they have taken a 10% stake in Electric Car maker Tesla. Although no actual figure was revealed, it was said the the cost was in the ‘Double-Digit Millions’. Despite the fact that Daimler, just like everyone else, knows that […]
Smart fortwo Edition Limited Three
Mercedes has had stick in the past for playing with its ‘Toy Car’, the Smart. What was a quality maker like Mercedes doing involved with a car the size of the boot on an S Class Mercedes and named after a watch maker (the name stands for Swatch Mercedes Art)? Don’t get me wrong; there […]
Tesla to supply Smart City Car Electrics
Tesla didn’t make much of a splash at the Detroit Motor Show – at first. But it announced, as we reported, the launch of its Tesla Roadster S, and that it is to produce a saloon car as well. But it goes much further than that. It seems that Tesla has some very ambitious plans. […]