I think that they are not just cute but very good. They come in all sorts of colors in Europe, they even have a sports model whicch looks like a small lotus. I'd love to have one, but the wife siad or the bike or the new car............ Bike is a lot more fun for me.

 

Talk about parking and colors

 

Here is the sports version and as you can see not much smaller than an A Class, also Mercedes

 

It looks a lot smaller then the Merc to me!

There are spaces in SF that our 05 Mini barely fits in (and I mean barely, the tiny added length of the R56 would push it too far) plus those simply too small, so the Smart could prove quite handy whereas the A Class would not

 

oh no

Now my wife has seen you can "dress these cars" up and loves them. She can't wait to see them ... sigh ...