Smart fortwo coupe (2008) Specifications

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  Oi!: Poll: Does product placement work?

  After watching the latest Bond film, we're beginning to wonder whether Bond's so angry just because of all the products he's meant to spruik. We wonder whether he's reading this story right now on his Intel-inside PC...

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  Modified Audi A4 achieves world record on alternative fuel

  A modified Audi A4 B7 Quattro has achieved a world speed record of 327.2km/h running on an alternative bio-gas fuel processed from grass.

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  Cadillac's Aussie comeback mixes art and science

  Cadillac is returning to these shores from early next year but land yachts and seats fit for Elvis' waistline are off the agenda.

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  Pagani Zonda C12S Roadster

  If you think Ferraris and Lamborghinis are pretty out there, then the Pagani Zonda will reset your boundaries. And if you have a wheelbarrow of cash in the backyard you can now drive one on Aussie roads.

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  Pumped up: SEMA 2008 preview

  A certain presidential election isn't the only the important thing happening tomorrow in the States, it's also the first day of the 2008 SEMA Show — the biggest event of the year for car customisers in the US.

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  New Ford Fiesta is wired for sound

  Ford has finally given the Fiesta the styling vim to attract bright young things and, when it goes on sale in early 2009, it will be compatible with your favourite MP3 player.

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  All-electric Porsche 911 is a bit RUF

  The best known tuner of Porsche cars, RUF, has junked the iconic 911's thrummy six-cylinder engine in favour of an all-electric powertrain for its eRUF concept.

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  Koenigsegg CCX: Swedish craziness lands in Australia

  It's ballistic, mental and the most exciting thing out of Sweden since Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid. The Koenigsegg CCX is now available in Australia for a lazy AU$2.1 million.

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  Z Portal begins strip searching cars

  Last week Australians got their first taste of an X-ray machine that can perform a "virtual strip search" when authorities began trialling a machine at Melbourne's domestic airport. Now there's a machine large enough to strip search a car.

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  Poll: Does product placement work?

  After watching the latest Bond film, we're beginning to wonder whether Bond's so angry just because of all the products he's meant to spruik. We wonder whether he's reading this story right now on his Intel-inside PC...

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  Lamborghini thrusts its four-door Estoque forth

  Lamborghini has been teasing us over the last couple of weeks with teaser shots of its latest concept car. Now the company has let the bull into the china shop: a four-door sports car called the Estoque.

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  Modified Audi A4 achieves world record on alternative fuel

  A modified Audi A4 B7 Quattro has achieved a world speed record of 327.2km/h running on an alternative bio-gas fuel processed from grass.

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  Cadillac's Aussie comeback mixes art and science

  Cadillac is returning to these shores from early next year but land yachts and seats fit for Elvis' waistline are off the agenda.

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  Pagani Zonda C12S Roadster

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  New Ford Fiesta is wired for sound

  Ford has finally given the Fiesta the styling vim to attract bright young things and, when it goes on sale in early 2009, it will be compatible with your favourite MP3 player.

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  Z Portal begins strip searching cars

  Last week Australians got their first taste of an X-ray machine that can perform a "virtual strip search" when authorities began trialling a machine at Melbourne's domestic airport. Now there's a machine large enough to strip search a car.

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  Koenigsegg CCX: Swedish craziness lands in Australia

  It's ballistic, mental and the most exciting thing out of Sweden since Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid. The Koenigsegg CCX is now available in Australia for a lazy AU$2.1 million.

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  Honda jazzes up the City

  Honda will slot the smaller-than-Civic City sedan into its Australian line-up from 2009.