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| Smart Christoph Schulenburg, senior testing manager "The Smart ForTwo is based upon comfort, agility, security and ecology. Weight is a crucial point. At speeds up to 145 km/h, vehicle weight is more important than aerodynamics, so future versions must not exceed our current weight.
"The car has a high payload proportional to its curb weight and we’ll tune the handling to suit the wide range of its potential vehicle weight. Because of the cost pressure in the micro car segment, we don’t expect top class innovations for suspension design being applied. But we can imagine the introduction of minor optimisations like amplitude controlled damping systems. "The smart fortwo is still the only car among its competitors offering ESP as standard. And we have offered electric power steering as an option since 2003 and a high percentage of our range is already equipped with it. We’re watching the development of driver assistance systems closely."
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