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24 April 2014

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We always knew that Smart’s foray into the US market was an ambitious one, with the tiny ForTwo contrasting sharply with the American taste for pickup trucks and big SUVs.

And now one US ForTwo owner has bridged the gap between the three cylinder, two-seat micro and more common US fare by sitting it atop a big block Chevy V8 and drag car chassis.

With classic bigs ‘n littles placed well outside the ForTwo’s compact body, the result looks like the offspring of a Smart and a 60s F1 car, with the exhaust note of a monster truck. Plenty of people have fitted powerful motorcycle engines to their Smarts before, but this big block example takes the cake.

Watch the desktop version of the Smart ForTwo drag car video here.

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2. The electric car breakthrough we've all been waiting for: GWM is close to developing solid state batteries that would see its Ora electric car smash the BYD Dolphin, MG4 and Tesla Model Y

3. Ford Escape coming back? Ford could pull its Kuga, Puma and Mustang out of the UK as petrol penalties come in and might look to Australia to sell them

4. Hyundai fights back against Chinese electric cars: Ioniq 3 registered for Australia as affordable EV firms for battle

5. Revolutionary change sweeping the electric car market: Volvo is the latest car brand to target Tesla with 'mega casting' manufacturing process for its Tesla Model Y and BMW iX3 rivalling EX60 - report

6. Toyota says plug-in hybrid cars are set to take off in Australia soon... so why doesn't it have any on offer here?

7. 2025 Toyota RAV4 takes shape! What we know so far about the new-generation Nissan X-Trail, Honda CR-V and Mazda CX-5-rivalling hybrid family car

8. Ford loses $2 billion in three months on EVs. How are car makers supposed to survive against cut price electric cars such as the BYD Atto 3 and MG4? | Analysis

9. I don't care what they say - size matters: Why cars like the 2024 Mazda MX-5 are brilliant | Opinion

10. Charging for more driving range that's already there? Tesla moves one step closer to charging customers to unlock software-locked range in US-made Model Y SUVs

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