Smart : small car, big deal / [text contributions by Jürgen Zöllter and Willi Diez] ; [English translation, Peter L. Albrecht].
By: Zöllter, Jürgen.
Contributor(s): Zöllter, Jürgen.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : Motorbooks, 2008Description: 177 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780760335215 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0760335214 (pbk. : alk. paper).Uniform titles: Smart. English Subject(s): Smart automobileDDC classification: 629.222/2Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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1. History & technology -- 1.1. The smart story : "reduce to the max" -- 1.2. Beginnings : a look back to the year 1972 -- 1.3. Idea mining in North America -- 1.4. Cooperation : Swatch and Mercedes-Benz join forces -- 1.5. Six days through the USA, from Laredo to Bemidji -- 1.6. Smartville : a groundbreaking production concept in Hambach -- 1.7. Design : between individuality, innovation, and art -- 1.8. Model history : a smart family portrait -- 1.9. Smart in the press -- 2. Analysis & prognosis -- 2.0. The future of a project, or, why the smart brand would have to be invented today, if it didn't already exist -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. A brief outline of smart history -- Phase I : from brownfield to greenfield - "not just another car" -- Phase II : from mobility concept to lifestyle product - "cheap & chic" -- Phase III : from niche player to full-line manufactures - "open your mind" -- Phase IV : and back again - "back to the roots" -- 2.3. An accounting after nine years--"lessons learned" -- "Smart thinking" - a microcar as an innovation carrier -- The revolution devours its own children : what remains of the Swatchmobile -- Nothing succeeds like success -- 2.4. Quo vadis smart? -- Climate change - the beginning of a new automotive age? -- Lohas - a car finds its target group -- 2.5. Smartism - in praise of persistence.
Authors Willi Diez and Jurgen Zollter examine the Smart's evolution from various perspectives.
Translated from the German.
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