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After years of on-again, off-again false starts, the Smart ForTwo is finally headed to the land of the free and the home of the Escalade. If you’ve traveled anywhere exotic in the past few years, to places such as Europe or Canada, you’ve likely seen the original Smarts scooting around and dicing up traffic like motorized pygmies on speed. Depending on your point of view, you’ve either thought, “Those things would never work in America,” or “Golly, I wish we had those in America.” Well, soon enough we’re going to find out which camp is right, because Roger Penske is bringing the second-generation Smart two-seater – in coupe and ragtop forms – to his vast dealer network, and he’s promising that a $99 deposit will get you a Smart of your own within six months. So far, 30,000 people have signed up for that deal, so it appears that the Age of the Microcar is off to a good start.

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