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Let me practice my French; net puet pas eviter les poseurs...

 

    One always sees so many "falsely" badged high performance cars throughout the world.  
This smart owner (assuming it was the owner who committed this fraud) is perhaps too ambitious...  if he/she were "smarter" he would've put a BRABUS logo on there.  That would've been believable as there are BRABUS smart cars.  

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Yes ...

 
By: bimbeano : June 2nd, 2017-15:49
Certainly in the absolute top ten of all time epic cars !

Shouldn't there be.....

 
By: nomadgiles : June 2nd, 2017-07:19
.....a decimal place dot betwixt the L and the 6? ;-)

This Smart is 599 cc i think

 
By: bimbeano : June 2nd, 2017-15:34
The new ones (Renault Twingo) are 899 cc .. both three cilinders.

Pfff ....

 
By: bimbeano : June 3rd, 2017-16:00
i must be getting old ... it is a Twingo SWB then ?

Not quite...

 
By: KMII : June 3rd, 2017-23:47
No two seater Twingos. But the base is shared

Actually wrong !

 
By: bimbeano : June 2nd, 2017-15:32
An SL 65 has a displacement of 6500 cc i guess ... so a 650 cc Smart should wear a SL 6,5 badge ... the dot should thus be between the 6 and the 5

That depends...

 
By: KMII : June 2nd, 2017-23:07
If it's not an AMG, the 65 is right (no commas), since a two litre is a 200...

Too confusing ...

 
By: bimbeano : June 3rd, 2017-16:01
... had too much beer today so i'll think about it tomorrow

Let me practice my French; net puet pas eviter les poseurs...

 
By: patrick_y : September 13th, 2017-10:30
One always sees so many "falsely" badged high performance cars throughout the world. This smart owner (assuming it was the owner who committed this fraud) is perhaps too ambitious... if he/she were "smarter" he would've put a BRABUS logo on there. That wo... 

An interesting and obscure detail:

 
By: cazalea : September 13th, 2017-11:31
My friend who has been dismantling the Smart electric Car2Go vehicles in Calif says many of the suspension bits are marked Brabus or share the same part numbers as the Brabus performance upgrade suspension ... I guess the battery weight etc is compensated... 

That is quite likely the explanation...

 
By: KMII : September 13th, 2017-11:34
In the past diesels used to have the more robust suspensions due to the heavy engines - so were preferred as a base for performance reengining

Awesome

 
By: Gelato Monster : September 15th, 2017-20:01
I think its the Smart S65 Evolution Black Series. Insiders engineering info says it is faster than AMG Project One.