2009 Smart ForTwo Passion Video Review

Cars.com's Joe Wiesenfelder takes a look at the 2009 Smart ForTwo Passion. It competes with the Toyota Yaris and MINI Cooper.

Shot and produced by: Matthew Avery
Edited by: Lindsay Bjerregaard

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• cars
• carscom
• 2009
• smart
• fortwo
• passion
• mini
• cooper
• toyota
• yaris
• chevrolet
• aveo
• nissan
• versa
• honda
• fit

[movitmovit]

heh he trashed it.

i laughed when he was talking about how no one respected him and rode his bumper and cut him off. frikken people.

[nerdgirl]

I have owned 2 Smart cars in Europe and purchasing another one in the US. I think that this review is pretty rubbish. The car is great for cities. The car is not great for long commuting or on highways. With that said, I have driving from Barcelona to Cannes in a Smart car and had zero problems.

[chaughten]

i drive montreal to boston in snowstorms (with winter tires) without issue. great car.

[Cosmo1093]

This car has no place or market in the US outside of super-dense cities like NYC. The one and only advantage is that you can parallel park in smaller spaces...or park 2 in a normal parking space (good luck finding other smart cars). Subcompacts and compacts like the Fiesta, Focus, Cruze, Cobalt, Accent, Yaris, Fit, and Elantra offer SO much more car for your money, can fit in any normal parking space, and still manage to get over 30mpg city and somewhere in the neighborhood of 40mpg highway...

[Annihilator1111]

the 2007-present Smart Fortwo is assembled in

Böblingen, Germany

Hambach, France

[Tarikace15]

I own Smart fortwo passion coupe with navigation and it's the best car anyone can drive it goes actually not bad at all in any area and I don't ever have to worry about parking or about the fact is my car too long to drive just to say it rules the streets today.

[sote86]

@drealm LMAO! I always thought women mostly drove 4X4's in America. Oh well, either way, the car isn't bad. Not good for rural areas, but great in the city. And it's great in the snow!

[bolognadetector]

@nerdgirl His review of the Smart ForTwo was primarily for drivers in the USA. Experiences driving a small car in Europe are going to be different. In the USA, the smaller the car the less of a human being you are considered to be. The less valuable your life is considered to be. People in big vehicles will run you off the road if they can get away with it and think nothing of it. The danger is real. It sucks and it is wrong but it is true.

[Sivosam]

Smart Fortwo isn't a good "reviewers car", so to speak. The transmission is not as horrible as most first time testers make it out to be, you just have to learn to use it. Now, I'm not saying that the transmission is perfect when you get used to it, but it's not really that bad. The Fortwo is an excellent city car with excellent safety, for a such small car.

[DerangedGames]

This is not a review. This is just a video hating at all the features on the smart car!!! GET THIS VIDEO OFF!

[sfavbtfv]

In the uk anyone will ride your bumper or cut u off what ever car your driving, dosen't make any difference what so ever, people just don't care and have me first attitudes here and fcuk u lol.