Via Kicking Tires, the Smart FourTwo now has a waiting list of fifteen months in parts of the United States. I have seen them being sold at the Mercedes dealership in Chandler, AZ. There are also more of the Smart cars appearing on US roads. Phoenix is a good city for them as the big highways ring the city and the interior is a network of traffic lights in a geometric square grid. I suspect it would be harder to sell them in New Jersey where the traffic system is the inter-states.

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I first saw the Smart cars in Germany. Ironically they sell them there with a 'top speed of 125 kmh" emblazoned across the windshield. Where horsepower is a selling point in the US, because of the autobahn's the top speed is a selling point in Germany.

When I was in Nurenberg I saw the Smart cars parked perpendicular to the curve where other cars - even the small ones - were parked parallel. Which I thought was a pretty nifty innovation. Especially as the Nurenberg Alt Stadt streets were paved and dated back to Medieval times.