smart purchased by Toyota!
The smart fortwo has just gone on sale in the United States and many people who put the $99 deposit haven’t even received their smarts. Now with Toyota stopping production of the 2008 smart fortwo many are left wondering what will happen with their deposits.
Toyota has made this dramatic move after the success of the Toyota IQ at the Geneva Motor Show and the overwhelming success of the smart fortwo in the United States. The success of the smart in the United States is what made Toyota decided to buy control of smart in order to quickly inject the Toyota IQ into the US marketplace and prevent the smart fortwo from taking control of the market.
During the transition of the two companies smart and Toyota have formed the smarToyota Corporation and the website http://www.smarToyota.com which will allow people to get more information about this breaking news and how things will be moving forward.
Personally I am very saddened by this news as I love my smart and was really looking forward to more people around the United States being able to share in the joy of the smart. Maybe on this day April 1, 2008 the smart Owners and Enthusiasts of the world will unite and rally smart to reject Toyotas control and retain the smart in the worldwide market.
UPDATE:
Hope that you have all gotten your fill of April fool jokes today and have visted the smarToyota.com site and figured out that the news today about smart and Toyota was our way of trying to make people smile on this historically fun day.
For those who found it funny I hope you shared it with others and those who didn’t find it amusing my apology. Now my personal favorite announcement made today was that Google taking over the US Government: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/01/14FE-april-fool-google-us...
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Permalink Reply by Ken Shahoian on -
First April Fool's joke of the year for me.........and it's not even April 1st where I am!
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Permalink Reply by 666 on -
Toyota already flooded the streets with Yaris, what do they need smart/IQ for? Although the car does look nice in the photo. It'll be interesting to see a Japanese car with a German engine, or vice versa.
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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on -
You got my wife on this one for a few minutes until I noticed the date on the e-mail. Good one!
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Fromoz on -
I hear they will offer an optional horse trailer.
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Permalink Reply by susan on -
I can't actually believe they did this. I finally own a mercedes (oh lord won't you buy me....) and they terminate it. Oh well, I guess I need a higher IQ as who am I going to find to repair my now unique, limited edition smart??
This will be the end of my smart.
Heavy sigh from the snow covered frozen north of Canada....
Hmmm, maybe they will have a garage sale and I can buy several and just run them into the ground instead of repairing them? Now, where is that toyota website??????
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Permalink Reply by susan on
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oh yah......but I still am passing on this very sad news to my friends and co-workers ....
I also think that someone should "leak" the story to the press....hmmm, now where is the BBC link (they got the world a few years ago with a winning interview with a yatch race that rowed into harbor.....)
:-)
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Permalink Reply by SmartPassion on -
I wonder if the new model will be called Smartoy or Toysmart. :-P
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Permalink Reply by susan on
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and we buy it at Walmart....
Price lowered for the Toysmart....Only at Walmart....
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Permalink Reply by 666 on
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I heard toys-mart will be the official distributor of the toy-smart. They haven't launched the site yet. Eventually it'll be at toysmart.com.
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