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Wonder if it has to do with the actual cars themselves to some degree ... https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27310639/smart-fortwo-dis...

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They haven't been using those in the US for a while, at least in Austin - they all got replaced by four-seater Mercedes Benz cars over the last couple of years.

Which is good. Smarts are of horrible quality. At least the combusting ones.

Dunno why the downvoted. Smart cars are objectively bad cars. For a similar price you can get much better cars like the Honda Fit.

However, they did have their charm when you were getting charged per minute driving them. Handled like a go cart. Gas is either 100% or 0% and you just modulate the brakes.

Depends where you live I suppose. A Jazz (what it's called in the UK) starts at £15k, a Smart back before they went electric only in this market was well under £9k.

They used those in Montreal, and yeah, they were not effective on even freshly plowed roads.

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