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Smart Crossblade Roadster (2002-2003) review

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Parkers overall rating: 2 out of 52.0

At a glance

Price new £15,885
Road tax cost £190
Insurance group 16
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Fuel economy Not tested to latest standards
Range 356 miles
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Available fuel types

Petrol

Pros & cons

PROS

Like nothing else on the road; great fun

CONS

No doors, no windscreen, no roof...

Written by Dan Harrison Published: 6 June 2019

Overview

This mad roofless, door-less smart is not for the faint hearted. It’s totally open to the elements and only comes in left-hand-drive. Unsurprisingly only a handful were sold to a few brave (although windswept and rain-lashed) Brits. This is a fantastic car if you live somewhere with year round good weather and you need something to whizz you to the beach but you’d have to be a motorcyclist to try running one as your only car in the UK.

However no other car turns heads as much as a Crossblade in February.