2011 Smart ForTwo Passion Cabriolet Review

2011 Smart ForTwo Passion Cabriolet.The smart fortwo is available in either pure or passion trims. The pure is solely available in coupe form, while the passion is offered as a coupe or cabriolet. Standard safety features include electronic stability program, anti-lock brakes, eight-airbags for the coupe, six-airbags for the cabriolet and tridion safety cell.

The 2011 Smart ForTwo Passion Cabriolet is one of the most unique cars on the road, but works best in an urban environment. The Smart Fortwo is a goofy-looking car, and even sillier in cabriolet form. Smart offers an iPhone app to replicate many cabin tech functions.

The Smart ForTwo is a bona fide city car, its boxy shape about as un-carlike as you can imagine. Smart snazzes up the ForTwo in its Cabriolet version by fitting it with a clever, if frivolous, soft top. The Smart ForTwo on its own is like an engineering nerd. With the convertible top, it’s like an engineering nerd wearing a silk shirt.

2011 Smart ForTwo Passion Cabriolet
Just add a soft top and rockin' sound to reveal the smart fortwo Passion Cabriolet where passion is never an exception.

"Smartville," one of the most progressive and planet-friendly car factories in existence, unleashes the 2011 smart fortwo Passion Cabriolet to push the maximum efficiency envelope. Go on and get in the smart fortwo at Park Place's smart center Dallas or smart center Fort Worth serving the Dallas Fort Worth Texas metroplex.

According to US Environment Protection Agency, smart fortwo is one of the top ten EPA-rated fuel sippers in the US today with its EPA MPG rating of 33 city and 41 highway. Another big environment-friendly smart feature is its 95 percent recyclability. Fancy a cruise control feature? The more would be 15-inch alloy wheels, transmission shift paddles, power windows, sport steering wheel, heated rear glass windows and heated power mirrors.

The smart fortwo may be a micro car, but not when it comes to safety. Standard safety features in the new Passion Cabriolet include antilock brakes, side airbags, knee bolster airbags, stability control, traction control and hill-hold assist.

Let your top down by turning the smart fortwo Passion Cabriolet into a convertible to match the micro car's macro-sized attitude with your take-charge approach to life. Interior
Interior smart fortwo Passion Cabriolet colors: Design black, design red and design beige. Exterior
Standard smart fortwo Passion Cabriolet exterior colors: Deep black, rally red and crystal white. Premium smart fortwo Passion Cabriolet exterior colors: While blue metallic, gray metallic and silver metallic.

Wheels and tires are 12-spokes alloy wheels (15") with front tires, tire pressure control system.

Safety
The 2011 smart fortwo increases vehicle occupant safety with the addition of standard knee bolster airbags to all models and standard window curtain airbags for both the pure and passion coupes. The 2011 Smart ForTwo Passion Cabriolet has six airbags standard: full-size front airbags, head/thorax (neck) side airbags and knee bolster airbags, each for driver and passenger. The smart fortwo vehicle safety design features the tridion safety cell, which is made of high strength steel.

The high seating position offers advantages in an offset frontal impact and side impact. The rear-mounted engine absorbs impact energy in a targeted manner in the event of a rear crash. The crash management system at the rear also features two crash boxes, and the bumpers in the smart fortwo are made of steel.
As a result, the smart fortwo is one of the top ten EPA-rated fuel sippers.

2011 Smart Fortwo

The 2011 Smart Fortwo can, at low speeds, feel quite perky and nimble. What's still genuinely worthy of oohs and ahs is the Fortwo's interior space. What's a little more disappointing is the Fortwo's lack of cargo space. The base Pure model doesn't even come with a sound system, though high-end Passion and sporty Brabus models add more extras—albeit at a significantly higher price tag.

For 2011 the Smart Fortwo receives a few minor cosmetic changes, LED daytime running lights, a new upper dash panel, cruise control, additional interior storage options and an upgraded audio system as well as side curtain and knee airbags.

The 2011 Smart Fortwo is a car of contradictions. The Smart Fortwo's 1.0-liter three-cylinder engine puts out 70 horsepower -- an unimpressive figure in today's world. This single-clutch, automated manual transmission shifts gears so slowly and clumsily that the noticeable shift shock will make passengers wonder what's wrong with it.

Considering all this, the Smart Fortwo's competition looks pretty attractive.

Body Styles, Trim Levels, and Options
The 2011 Smart Fortwo is a two-seat subcompact available as a hatchback coupe or a convertible (Cabriolet). The Passion Coupe adds the Pure's options, plus 15-inch alloy wheels, transmission shift paddles, a glass roof, heated power mirrors, power windows and a sport steering wheel. The Passion Cabriolet further adds a power convertible top, a glass rear window and side airbags (in place of side curtain airbags).

Options on the Pure and Passion include LED daytime running lights, automatic lights and wipers, power steering, heated seats, center console storage and an alarm. Powering the 2011 Smart Fortwo is a rear-mounted 1.0-liter three-cylinder Mitsubishi engine that delivers 70 hp and 68 pound-feet of torque. This is sent to the rear wheels through a five-speed automated manual transmission. The transmission can be shifted manually if desired via the console-mounted stick on all models or shift paddles on the steering wheel of the Passion.

In Edmunds testing, a Smart Fortwo went from zero to 60 mph in a glacial 14.1 seconds on its way to a 90 mph top speed.

Safety
The 2011 Smart Fortwo is built by Mercedes-Benz, and as such, it offers ample occupant protection. Standard safety equipment includes side curtain airbags for the coupe models and side airbags for the cabriolet, knee bolster airbags, antilock brakes (front discs and rear drums), hill-hold assist, stability control and traction control. The Smart Fortwo has not been rated using the government's new, more strenuous 2011 crash-testing procedures.

Interior Design and Special Features
Despite its comically small exterior proportions, the Smart Fortwo is remarkably roomy inside.
most car shoppers will cross the 2011 Smart ForTwo off their list quickly and look for alternatives with better safety scores and more space. Both have good safety ratings; the Fiesta is even a “2010 Top Safety Pick.” Neither can top the Fiesta and Fit’s performance or fuel economy ratings, but they do have standard features that cost extra on the base ForTwo. On the downside, the Soul and Cube have acceptable fuel economy ratings.

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