2016 Smart fortwo Cabrio

The countdown has began a specially iconic version of the newest version show, for the brand new fortwo cabrio. The newest smart cabrio will soon be accessible for purchasing from mid-November 2015 and the first versions will reach dealers.

Three cars in one: in the touch of a button the newest smart cabrio is transformed from a closed two seater using the soft top utterly open right into a fully fledged cabriolet, or an automobile using a big sliding canvas sunroof. This allows the clean air driving experience to be accommodated to the driver's disposition or the elements. This flexibility provided by the "tritop" folding soft top as well as the removable roof bars is a unique characteristic - and not only in this section. In once, the smart cabrio that is brand new is the sole real cabriolet in its vehicle type.

The next model also embodies the smart design philosophy of PLEASURE.ctional design, defined by two posts - the heart and head. The design idiom is extremely progressive, purist and clear. Including the shape that is typical with ultra-short overhangs, the lines that are clean, contours and surfaces and, obviously, the tridion safety cell. Together with the grille in a the rhombic headlamps as well as a fading honeycomb layout, the face is clever.

Prospective clients can select between three distinct colours for the "tritop" cloth soft top: blue denim (jeans appear), reddish or black. The headlining is always gray.

Removing the side roof bars empowers a full blown cabrio encounter. The roof bars may be stowed on the interior of the tailgate. This stowage compartment in the tailgate offers added stowage space for things that are small-scale, for example fluorescent coat, first-aid kit or warning triangle.

Having an area of 1.8 m2 the "tritop" cloth soft top is about four percent bigger than its forerunner. The outer covering consists of the interior comes with a polyester/cotton combination as well as a specially lightfast polyacrylic cloth. There's a rubber layer at the center. The soft top has a total depth of 20 mm. The back windscreen is not cool and consists of glass.

Security: occupant protection space validated in roof-fall evaluation

The smart fortwo cabrio that is brand new is the rigid smart cabrio. Around 15 percent has enhanced the torsional strength in contrast to the forerunner.

Additionally, the cabrio has been specially strengthened in critical areas in comparison. The changes incorporate a big steel cross underneath the car, two torsional bulkheads underneath the car at back and the front and an inner tube in the A pillars made from high strength hot- .

In addition to satisfying with the demands of crash tests that are required, the brand new smart fortwo cabrio - having a security theory that features the tridion safety cell typical of the brand for energy absorption that is efficient - additionally passes added Mercedes Benz crash tests that frequently have considerably more stringent demands. Including the "roof-fall" evaluation. Here the body falls onto the roof construction in a small angle from a height of 50 centimetres as well as the vehicle hits on among the two A pillars.

Complex support systems that were previously the reserve of higher types of vehicle help avoid injuries. Included in these are the most recent-generation ESP(registered company) with Crosswind Help and hill start assist (standard), forward collision warning (choice) and Lane Keeping Support (choice).

2016 Smart fortwo Cabrio

Version variants: three lines, two engines, two transmissions

The newest cabrio will be accessible with two state of the art three-cylinder engines rated at 52 kW 66 kW and /71 hp /90 hp. Both engines may be along with the five-speed manual transmission or the twinamic dual clutch transmission that was automatic.

Along with the three lines fire, prime and proxy, clients can select from a big selection of security and comfort characteristics - such as the newest attributes added in the most recent facelift like smartphone integration with MirrorLink(registered company) (normal in conjunction with all the smart Media-System) or the Urban Fashion bundle (including black wheel arch liners and lowering kit). A wind deflector is available. The interior styling will please and is characterised with a "dynamic loop" as a signature characteristic through the inside - mental extensive lines which feature on the dash and doors, as an example.

The testing programme for open-top vehicles from Mercedes Benz Autos is wide-ranging - and indistinguishable for all versions: The new smart fortwo cabrio was thus subjected to exactly the same stringent evaluations as, for instance, the S Class Cabriolet from Mercedes Benz. As an example, on the entire vehicle life cycle the opening and closure of the soft top was modeled in a endurance evaluation. In addition to this part evaluation, which consists of 20,000 cycles , the soft top the that is and soft top mechanism must additionally show in the Because perfect performance also has to be ensured at temperatures between - 80 degrees and 15 centigrade.

The car wash evaluation helps to ensure that smart cabrio passengers constantly remain dry. Along with this testing in the development stage, every single smart cabrio can also be analyzed for leak-proofness: using a standardised number of water for seven minutes every vehicle is scattered by the end of the generation in the Hambach plant.

The programmers examined the care of a draught-free inside in the Mercedesbenz wind tunnel together with assistance from the dummy "Tanja". She's fitted using a total of 16 rate detectors on arms and her neck which enable the flow rates of the wind in the inside to be quantified.

Additionally, there's wide-ranging total vehicle testing on testing roads and grounds of distinct quality all over the world.

smart cabrio: a car with rage character for 15 years

In the International Motor Show in Frankfurt in 1999 the world people surprised using several new version studies. A cabrio variation was presented that was in line with the smart city-coupe. This version opened a completely new dimension to the "shut" micro auto community by opening up the roofing. Since the very first version change in 2006 the soft top continues to be automatic. For the 3rd generation accessible from 2010 new soft top colours in blue and red enlarged the range of colours.

2016 Smart fortwo Cabrio

However that is only one model in the real history of driving experience that is smart to provide a clean air. A unique vehicle version which was found in the marketplace in 2002 offered a true open skies feeling: the smart crossblade. It'd no roof, no doors with no windscreen. Its motorists were capable drive with the wind in their own face for an incomparable experience that is driving through the countryside under open heavens. A narrow, wind deflector that is tinted was all that was stretched from the other side of the cockpit space to decrease the headwind. A year after smart determined to introduce a little chain of the car on the marketplace.