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About Us Contact Us Help Home Manufacturers News Spy Shots Reviews Blogs Gallery Magazine Forum Shop Cars for Sale News Feed | Green newsDrivesFirst official picturesCAR featuresSubscribe to CAR magazine Smart models, news & reviews Rivals Smart Fortwo ED (2008) electric CAR review Nice Mega City (2008) CAR review Other models Smart Fortwo CDI (2008) CAR review Smart Fortwo Brabus (2007) CAR review Smart Fortwo ED (2008) electric CAR review Green cars Click Thumbnails to Enlarge Statistics How much? £7,295 On sale in the UK: October 2008 Engine: 1.0-litre 3cyl 6-valve, 71bhp, 81lb ft Transmission: Five-speed automated manual, rear-wheel drive Performance: 13.3sec 0-62mph, 90mph, 65mpg, 103g/km CO2 How heavy / made of? 750kg/steel How big (length/width/height in mm)? 2695/1559/1542 Need to know CAR's rating 3 Handling 4 Performance 3 Usability 4 Feelgood factor 4 Readers' rating 4 Smart Fortwo MHD micro-hybrid (2008) CAR review By Andrew Noakes First Drives 16 July 2008 12:02 The Smart Fortwo MHD has been available in Europe since October 2007. MHD is Smart-talk for a stop/start system and stands for Micro Hybrid Drive. UK versions of the 61bhp and 71bhp Smart will have MHD from October 2008, while the punchier 84bhp and Brabus models will have it in 2009. Time for CAR to take one out for a traffic-jam test drive. How does the Smart Fortwo’s MHD stop/start work? Bigger stop/start systems like that in the A-class BlueEfficiency add a belt-driven starter-generator, but keep the conventional starter motor for cold starts. In the Smart, both the starter and alternator are replaced by the starter-generator. The system generates electricity to charge the battery when the driver is braking, and automatically cuts the engine when the speed drops below 8km/h (about 5mph). It then re-starts the engine when the driver releases the brakes. Click ‘Next’ to find out how the Smart Fortwo MHD drives 123Next>> Rate this article... 1 2 3 4 5 Average rating: 4 (46 votes) Discuss this Add your comment Sign in You must be signed in to submit a comment. Smart Fortwo MHD micro-hybrid (2008) CAR review Subject Your comment Please enter a comment Please enter a comment By submitting your comment, you agree to adhere to the CAR Magazine website Terms and Conditions Cancel Subscribe to comments You must be logged in to subscribe to a topic Login or register now supercarrambler says RE: Smart MHD micro-hybrid CAR review When will they build cities to take city cars. Have you ever tried to drive any of these micro cars over any traffic calming humps, Paris to Dakar must be less traumatic !! 02 September 2008 08:07 JohnnyBimmer says RE: Smart MHD micro-hybrid CAR review What criteria is the Smart Hybrid dumped in green then? Is green being alive or is green being dead? If green is small in size then eliminate buses. If green is small 'per vehicle' then some account must be taken for volumes which make the 3 units per year Bugatti Veyron 'green' and the 200,000 unit Smart a terrible strain on Earths resources. If green is smallest carbon footprint 'per person' then Al Gore, the Google founders, Un Gen Secretary and his helicopter over Antartica and his IPCC jet-set cronies with meetings Bali, Maldives, Vienna, Hazaii etc are all to be jailed first on hypocracy and un-greenes crimes against humanity. If green is being alive then the Smart fails to match a Mercedes S-Class on protecting its occupants. If green is sipping petrol at 50mpg then dump the Toyota Prius (real world 45mpg). What are CAR's rules on green then? 30 July 2008 14:16 resis says RE: Smart MHD micro-hybrid CAR review "And THERE goes the SMART MHD!" Oh how I miss Murray Walker......... 17 July 2008 22:53 AReader says RE: Smart MHD micro-hybrid CAR review Actually, the word is spelt "catapult", which is the only way to launch a SMART off the line smartly. As for Gordon Murray Walker, he really was the GOD of F1 commentary. His mate James Hunt understood how to max out meagre motoring money, exploiting his Austin A35 van like the man! 16 July 2008 22:37 Biram Desai says RE: Smart MHD micro-hybrid CAR review AReader thoroughly enjoyed your Polo story, I think a £500 Polo from the small ads would be the most fun and I will try it one day for sure. For me the original Polo, Scirocco, Golf etc only got worse with later designs and I do think car design has gone backwards in many ways. JB entertaining as always, but its capitalist not capatalist - but more importantly its Gordon Murray not Murry - sacrilege to spell the worlds greatest car designer's name wrong - its like spelling God wrong!!! :-) 16 July 2008 20:36 Show all comments Become a CAR contributor Upload stories, photos or videos direct to the site, or email newsdesk@carmagazine.co.uk. 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When you take your foot off the brake, the engine automatically powers up. The result is 64.2 miles per gallon for this Smart, compared to the 57.6 you'll wring out of the normal Fortwo cabrio. Driving any car that goes silent when you stop is guaranteed to spook you at first. The mhd is no different, as I discovered during a test-drive today. Fortunately, by the time your foot's come off the brake and is back on the accelerator, the engine is fully powered-up. Each time the engine splutters back to life, you feel and hear a reassuring judder. The system felt pretty familiar after 30 minutes of driving. One useful element is a display to the right of the steering wheel, which shows an orange icon when the engine is still warming up and isn't ready for stop-start. It jumps to a green when the engine's ready for stop-start. I found it mostly changed to green in less than a quarter of a mile, though the exact duration depends on the temperature. The green and orange icons are handy. The new Mercedes-Benz A Class' stop-start system, for example, doesn't have any such visual indicator of when the engine's ready -- you just have to wait for it to kick in. It's worth noting you can also manually switch off the Smart mhd's stop-start system with a button next to the gear stick (pictured below). I can't think of many occasions you'd want to turn it off, aside from when you're parallel parking into a tight spot. Stop-start really thrives if you're driving in town. Smart says it increases mpg by 13 per cent in urban areas, versus 8 per cent in mixed conditions. I'll admit there's nothing too exhiliarting about those figures and the technology, which has been around since 2004 on several car brands. Still, it will add up to decent fuel economy and cut your carbon footprint. The mhd has emissions of 105g/km CO2 versus the basic non-stop-start model's 116g/km CO2. Like previous Smart fortwos, this one's fun to drive. The Smart Mhd's just gone on sale in the UK from £7,060; get the lowdown via Smart's site. You might like these... Ferrari's Formula One steering wheel explained in Crave Racing driver compares Gran Turismo 5 with real life in lap of Nurburgring in Crave Formula One to race eco-friendly hybrid engines in 2013 in Crave Special edition London G-Wiz boasts new paint job, more gadgets in Crave US Army developing Transformer flying car in Crave Post your comment Make your comment count. Log in or register to skip the 'Are you human?' question and get an avatar Comment * Your email * Will not be displayed with your comment Are you human? * Copy the letters and numbers to prove that you're human. 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Luckily for cheapskates like you and us, Smart has unveiled a new version of its iconic supermini that reduces the cost of car ownership while not harming the planet -- much. The Smart mhd, which we tested in this video, looks much like any 2009-model Smart Car. It uses Smart's new micro hybrid-drive technology, however, which switches the engine off as soon as you fall below a speed of 5mph under braking, and turns it back on again when you press the accelerator pedal. Smart says the mhd system can improve fuel economy by approximately 8 per cent in mixed driving conditions and up to 13 per cent in urban environments, making it ideal for heavy traffic. According to Smart, the 71bhp coupe model can achieve 65.7mpg. It also spews just 103g/km of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, versus the non stop-start model's 116g/km, which is good, but slightly too high to squeeze under the magic 100g/km marker that makes a car exempt from vehicle excise duty. In practice, the Smart mhd works well. The stop-start technology feels a little disconcerting to begin with, and the 1-litre diesel engine does sound a little unrefined at high revs, but the overall driving experience is an enjoyable one. Our fears about engine wear seem unfounded, too, since the car's starter motor has been replaced with an electrically operated drive belt that gets its power from the Smart mhd's regenerative braking system. The Smart mhd is by no means perfect. Its 0-60mph time of 13.3 seconds means all but the most apathetic of Sunday drivers will beat you off the lights, and the fact it only has two seats means most of your entourage will require their own transport. This aside, there's plenty of fun to be had. It's nippy in and around traffic, ridiculously easy to park, and the semi-automatic gearbox means you never have to worry about using a clutch. The Smart mhd is available now for £7,060. You can watch a video of the mhd system in action by clicking play in the video thumbnail above. Watch Smart mhd's stop-start technology saves petrol video in the Videos section Browse more Car Tech videos You might like these... Ferrari's Formula One steering wheel explained in Crave Racing driver compares Gran Turismo 5 with real life in lap of Nurburgring in Crave Formula One to race eco-friendly hybrid engines in 2013 in Crave Special edition London G-Wiz boasts new paint job, more gadgets in Crave US Army developing Transformer flying car in Crave Comments 4 Add your comment anonymous 22 January, 2009 13:06 Sounds like a more aggressive version of what VW dabbled in on some of their cars for a little while many years ago. I think it only kicked in when the car was actually stationary, however. anonymous 22 January, 2009 20:29 If I'm going to look as ridiculous as a driver of this car will and also be unable to take more than 1 passenger then I want 100mpg and less than 100g/km anonymous 27 January, 2009 18:02 Whaat, the car looks cool! They should have tested this in the inner cities, I can imagine it really comes into its own on a gridlocked highstreet. anonymous 19 February, 2009 22:13 Alright, Don't get me wrong, I love the Smart Car and I'm a petrolhead through and through... This is my problem: I read that starting an engine uses the equivalent of about 6 minutes worth of 'running-engine' fuel. How can starting and stopping a few times every minute possibly save fuel??? Post your comment Make your comment count. 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Mercedes-Benz S 400 HYBRID and smart mhd recognised by Oko-Trend Posted by smart car UK at 21.12.2009 A vehicle from the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and a model from the smart range have been recognised in independent research from environmental institute Oko-Trend.The experts looked at areas including fuel consumption, exhaust emissions, noise and materials chosen for construction before making their assessments.It was decided that the Mercedes-Benz S 400 HYBRID and the smart mhd were each the most eco-friendly vehicles in the respective classes.The Mercedes-Benz S 400 HYBRID claimed the honours in the luxury class segment, buoyed by its combination of a six-cylinder petrol engine with a 20 horsepower electric motor, with the inclusion of an automatic start/stop function.This tool, which involves the engine being turned off when a vehicle comes to halt before automatically coming back to life when a driver takes his foot off the brake pedal, is also a feature of the smart mhd, which triumphed in the convertible/roadster category.According to the manufacturer, this system makes it possible for a motorist to make fuel savings of up to 20 per cent, particularly when the vehicle is being driven in city traffic.Meanwhile, this system has no hindrance on the comfort and performance expected of the model.Discover all the big benefits of the smart at thesmart.co.uk No related posts. 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