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Smart cars have been sold in Canada for a few years now — all diesel. They get much better mileage than advertised for the new gasoline jobs. It’s a shame that diesel isn’t more popular in the U.S.

Also, the new Smarts are about eight inches longer than the older ones. I guess that the thinking was, if you want to sell small cars to Americans, they’d better be the biggest small cars around. (Just joking.)

Smart cars are great metro cars — it’s all about the parking.

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It’s a shame that diesel isn’t more popular in the U.S.

I don't have the facts, but it seems like every time diesel starts to get popular in the US, the EPA nails diesel cars with stifling regulations.

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I was just looking at the Canadian Smart Car site, and it appears it now has a gasoline engine. I could almost swear that the one the lady I work with owns is a diesel (CDI?) and gets significantly better mileage than that.