Americans’ affection for monstrous SUVs might be withering in the face of rising gas prices, but no one’s really sure whether they’ll readily accept the little Smart ForTwo as a remedy for fuel-pump woes. More than 750,000 ForTwo units have been sold throughout Europe over the past eight years, DaimlerChrysler says. The car is also available in Canada. The ForTwo isn’t a hybrid, nor is it actually “smart” in the high-tech sense–i.e., it doesn’t contain any fancy chips that let it talk or fly or automatically know where its driver wants to go–but the pod-shaped car certainly gets impressive gas [...]
