smart continues its mobility concept further: market launch for the smart escooter in 2014
Freitag, 11.Mai 2012smart will launch the escooter on the market in 2014. For smart, this is the next logical step in implementing its comprehensive concept for future urban mobility.
“The decision in favor of the escooter has been made,” announced Dr. Joachim Schmidt, Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing, Mercedes-Benz Cars, on the sidelines of the international dealer [...]
Big award for a clever idea: smart eball wins gold ADC award 2012
Donnerstag, 3.Mai 2012At this year’s international Art Directors Club (ADC) awards, smart won “gold” in the category of “Interactive/ Physical Innovations” with its interactive eball game event. The 91st ADC Awards ceremony will be held at a large gala in New York on 8th May.
The Art Directors Club (ADC) is a professional association of art directors from [...]
smart launches world’s first commercial on Twitter
Montag, 16.April 2012The smart fortwo fits not only into every parking spot, but also into a tweet. smart Argentina has launched the world’s first animated advertising campaign on Twitter – a digital flip book consisting of 455 individual tweets.
The message is “smart is the only car that fits everywhere, so why not into 140 characters, too?” [...]
A Great Success – The First 100 Days of car2go in Vienna
Freitag, 16.März 2012car2go has been successfully launched in the Austrian capital, Vienna. After just 100 days, more than 7,000 Viennese have already registered for the new mobility service. Vienna is therefore one of the car2go cities with the most successful launches.
“We are thrilled to receive this great reception from Vienna”, says Robert Henrich, Managing Director of car2go [...]
smart launches new mobility services: smart – always a step ahead
Mittwoch, 7.März 2012smart is supplementing its mobility offering with additional, customer-friendly services. From the summer of 2012 all smart drivers will be able to take advantage of exclusive services in many car parks and to avail of different kinds of rental vehicles to meet their needs at short notice. And all this at very favourable terms. In [...]
At dealers from May 2012 – A sharp mix of colours: smart fortwo sharpred
Freitag, 10.Februar 2012The latest edition from smart has been christened sharpred. This smart fortwo is a real eye-catcher as the intense red of the tridion safety cell and door mirror housing forms a striking contrast to the rest of the exterior in black.
The smart fortwo sharpred is available as a coupé (from €14,490) and as a [...]
smart fortwo 2012: Facelift focusing on the exterior
Mittwoch, 1.Februar 2012The spring of 2012 will see the smart fortwo making its mark in a striking new look, featuring an upgraded exterior and a fresh leather/fabric mix in the interior. The smart fortwo is available for ordering now. The first vehicles will reach dealers at the beginning of April.
The substantially revamped smart fortwo sports a markedly [...]
Mercedes-Benz Cars Reach All-Time High with Sales of 1,362,908 Units in 2011
Freitag, 6.Januar 2012In 2011 Mercedes-Benz Cars sold more vehicles than ever before in a single year. A total of 1,362,908 vehicles of the brands Mercedes-Benz, smart and Maybach have been delivered to customers – around 77,000 units more than in the previous record set in 2007 (1,285,900 units).
2011 was also the best sales year in the history [...]
Mercedes-Benz Posts Strong Sales in Japan
Mittwoch, 30.November 2011In spite of the heavy earthquake in March and its serious consequences for the country, sales of Mercedes-Benz vehicles have developed favorably in Japan. Since the beginning of the year, sales have risen by 2.7 percent to 25,858 units, even though the overall market has strongly declined (-21.6%).
After sales had fallen by almost 25 [...]
The most spectacular new film car for Hollywood: smart 341 Parkour wins the Los Angeles Design Challenge 2011
Samstag, 26.November 2011The most spectacular new film car for Hollywood comes from Sindelfingen. The designers at the Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios in Sindelfingen convinced the jury of the Los Angeles Design Challenge 2011 with the smart 341 Parkour and the exciting reporter story “Annie get the Grannies”.
This meant that smart won the prestigious design contest, which [...]
Vienna Calling: Launch of car2go in Vienna
Montag, 14.November 2011car2go today announced that it is going to start operations in Vienna. Beginning in December, 500 smart fortwo “car2go edition” vehicles will be distributed throughout the Austrian capital.
As the world’s first mobility program with maximum flexibility and without fixed rental locations, car2go offers its members an opportunity to spontaneously rent vehicles anytime and anywhere [...]
Mercedes-Benz Sales on Track: Upswing continues in October
Samstag, 5.November 2011Following record sales in the third quarter, in October Mercedes-Benz once again succeeded in surpassing the excellent sales level reached in the same month of last year. Shortly before the launch of the high-volume B-Class, 103,378 customers (+2.9%) chose to purchase a Mercedes-Benz vehicle.
A total of 1,022,666 units have been delivered since January, an [...]
Revolutionizing Mobility: car2go and Europcar extend Partnership Europe-wide
Montag, 24.Oktober 2011car2go GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler AG, together with Europcar, the leader in car rental services in Europe, will create a new joint-venture to accelerate and extend their innovative partnership Europe-wide.
The new company is called “car2go Europe GmbH” and will enable the two partners to bring the unique car2go mobility service to millions [...]
smart WeSC cooperation: Talk is silver, driving is golden
Mittwoch, 7.September 2011smart and the street fashion brand WeSC have joined forces in a partnership and will be presenting what are quite literally the golden results of their work from 13 September at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt: the “ smart BRABUS tailor made by WeSC” and the “headphones for the smart by WeSC”.
WeSC have selected [...]
smart ebike to go on sale in 2012: Urban electric mobility from smart – now also on two wheels
Mittwoch, 17.August 2011The smart ebike is going into series production. With this step smart as a pioneer of local emission-free electric mobility is expanding its e-product portfolio.
A near-series version of the smart ebike will be on display at the “Eurobike” show in Friedrichshafen (31 August – 3 September 2011) and at the Frankfurt Motor Show (13 [...]
car2go Comes to Canada: Intelligent Urban Mobility for a Greener Vancouver
Mittwoch, 27.April 2011car2go announced today that Vancouver, British Columbia, is the first Canadian city selected to launch its innovative mobility service. A newly created company, car2go Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, will also be located in Vancouver.
Nicholas Cole, President and CEO of car2go Canada Ltd., and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson made the official [...]
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