Daimler's Smart brand has faced many challenges in the past, but overcoming common perception is probably toughest of all. So used to huge SUVs and pickups are many customers, that they refuse to ...

The Smart fortwo gets great gas mileage, fits into the tiniest parking spaces and earns style points by looking like nothing else on the road. But you can’t help but wonder how the 8-foot, 8-inch ...

There’s no other way to say it. The Smart is a smart car for San Francisco. Streets are crowded with buses, taxis and pedestrians. Parking spaces are hard to find. Plus, no other American city puts ...

The tiny Smart Fortwo Electric Drive sounded like the Starship Enterprise taking off. It made a faint whine as it pulled away, delivering power so smoothly that it might as well have been gliding ...

Reassuring people that its tiny Fortwo city car is safe must be a constant struggle for Daimler's Smart brand. In Europe, where the diminutive cars roam around streets barely wider than the car, it's ...