{"id":3078,"date":"2007-11-03T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2007-11-03T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T16:30:48","slug":"smart_fortwo_re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"Smart ForTwo Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/city.jpg\"><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/?p=6144\">Martin Schwoerer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Smart ForTwo isn&#8217;t so much a small car as a short one. At just eight feet from stem to stern, it\u2019s by far the shortest car on the market. What&#8217;s the difference between small and short? A small car can stay low to the ground to achieve excellent handling and fuel economy. A short car only excels at one thing: unmetered parallel parking. The first-generation Smart proved the point. As reviewed on TTAC, it was a noisy, slow, poor-handling, stiff-legged, bouncy and crashy car with meh mileage. So, Daimler says it\u2019s rectified the first-gen&#8217;s faults. Is Version 2.0\u2013 headed stateside in 2008\u2013 ready for prime time?<br \/>\nThe new ForTwo maintains its Tonka-toy proportions and look at me I\u2019m wearing designer glasses (without a prescription) unconventionality. There\u2019s now a painted parenthesis around the driver\u2019s compartment: a clever if unsuccessful attempt to reassure drivers that Smart\u2019s got their back (as there\u2019s nothing much behind them). From certain angles, the slash-marked Four Two looks like a Pokemon with weird sideburns. Anyway, there\u2019s no denying that observers (especially women) fight the urge to muss the ForTwo\u2019s metaphorical hair and pinch its figurative cheeks.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/city.jpg\"><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/?p=6144\">Martin Schwoerer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Smart ForTwo isn&#8217;t so much a small car as a short one. At just eight feet from stem to stern, it\u2019s by far the shortest car on the market. What&#8217;s the difference between small and short? A small car can stay low to the ground to achieve excellent handling and fuel economy. A short car only excels at one thing: unmetered parallel parking. The first-generation Smart proved the point. As reviewed on TTAC, it was a noisy, slow, poor-handling, stiff-legged, bouncy and crashy car with meh mileage. So, Daimler says it\u2019s rectified the first-gen&#8217;s faults. Is Version 2.0\u2013 headed stateside in 2008\u2013 ready for prime time?<br \/>\nThe new ForTwo maintains its Tonka-toy proportions and look at me I\u2019m wearing designer glasses (without a prescription) unconventionality. There\u2019s now a painted parenthesis around the driver\u2019s compartment: a clever if unsuccessful attempt to reassure drivers that Smart\u2019s got their back (as there\u2019s nothing much behind them). From certain angles, the slash-marked Four Two looks like a Pokemon with weird sideburns. Anyway, there\u2019s no denying that observers (especially women) fight the urge to muss the ForTwo\u2019s metaphorical hair and pinch its figurative cheeks.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}