Is M-B for real??!
This "car" is a total joke: crude, overpriced, has relatively poor gas mileage considering the minimal displacement of the engine, dangerous (can you imagine getting run into by ANY other vehicle in this diminutive contraption??!), mechanically primitive with a farcical transmission, etc., etc., etc.
Apart from the novelty factor and a certain fringe appeal to the dimwitted radical envirofreaks, it has no place on North American roads. Not only is it totally uncompetitive with larger, safer vehicles which offer equal or better gas mileage but it is mechanically and dynamically inferior.
Don't be sucked in by emotional appeals to "greener" driving. The "Smart Car" is a loser from every angle.