Gas Mileage - Tiny "smart car" is making inroads against gas guzzlers - Dayton Daily News

These European imports are just starting to be sold on American soil, though some form or another has been driving around Europe forever, and smart (the lower case “s” is the way they like it) cars made it to Canada in 2004. The cars — three versions of the smart fortwo (pronounced sort of like it’s spelled, “for two”) — are coming from Germany, courtesy of Smart GmbH (part of DaimlerChrysler AG’s Mercedes Car Group) and Roger Penske’s United Auto Group, which partnered up to sell the cars in the United States. Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, is on record as saying small cars are at a disadvantage when hit by bigger cars, thought the organization has yet to crash-test a smart car. Or for the good mileage — the 33 mpg city, 41 highway rating isn’t bad, but it’s not the 60 miles a gallon some people seem to be expecting, and it’s not that much better than a Toyota Yaris, for example (29 city, 36 highway), while not dependent on premium grade gas, like the smart car. read more

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