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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.

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This year’s model is the first with a gasoline engine (in Canada, at any rate). I think that the switch from diesel was prompted by the entry into the U.S. market, where diesel isn’t popular. The diesel engines got much higher mileage. The diesel also cost more, so that might have had something to do with the switch — although the diesel would pay for itself in short order.