Low fuel consumption coupled with lots of driving pleasure
Following on from the presentation of a hybrid drive concept for the smart fortwo at the 2001 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA), smart is now presenting a complete vehicle with hybrid drive: the smart crosstown. This show car demonstrates that smart has the potential to offer environmentally-friendly drives not just in the present, but in the future as well. And what's more, it shows that it is possible to have the best of both worlds: low fuel consumption and a high degree of driving pleasure.
To what extent and when a drive concept of this kind will be available for the smart fortwo or the smart forfour has not yet been decided. But one thing is certain: with the smart fortwo cdi and the smart forfour cdi, smart already offers vehicles that consume a very small amount of fuel indeed. From spring 2006, the smart fortwo cdi and the smart forfour cdi will be available with diesel particle filters. Until then, all customers of our authorised smart dealers in Germany and Austria who purchase since 01. July 2005 (date of initial registration) a smart fortwo cdi or a smart forfour cdi will receive a voucher entitling them to have a diesel particle filter retrofitted to their vehicle free of charge at an authorised smart dealer in their vehicle.
Sketches and blueprints originate from a creative workshop for the successor to the smart fortwo
Designers spent a week in a creative workshop considering how the successor to the smart fortwo coupé and the fortwo cabrio might look. This workshop yielded a large number of sketches and blueprints suggesting possible variants for the smart fortwo of the future. The idea for the smart crosstown show car is based on a sketch produced at this very workshop.
First of all, on the basis of the sketches produced, a 1:4 clay model was constructed in the design studio, and this was later followed by a functional model showing not just the design, but also the functions of the new vehicle: for example the convertible roof and the stowaway windscreen. After it had been decided that this was the vehicle that was to be presented as a show car at the IAA, work commenced in April 2005 on constructing an exterior and an interior clay model on a scale of 1:1.
Once the final decision had been taken regarding the appearance of the vehicle's exterior and interior, the designers finally commenced construction of the smart crosstown show car itself. By the end of August, the work was finished. The smart crosstown was now complete, and ready to go for its film and photo shoot. Even in the studio there was no doubting this was a show car that was going in a totally different direction from the smart fortwo. Which just goes to show just how much can be achieved on the basis of the radical smart fortwo concept.
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