Smart Roadster Test By Jeremy Clarkson 

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Put a Hayabusa engine and 6-speed manual gearbox in it

1:33 "Feel that grip it's fantastic!" as the thing understeers massively through the turn

I totally agree with everything Jeremy said about the joy of cornering with a light-weight car with such good traction. It is by far the biggest selling point of the Smart Roadster. I often take longer routes if I know there are good corners :) I've test driven a lot of cheap and expensive sports cars, but there is simply no other "go-kart" that you're allowed to drive on the road. It's high time for a newer model. If anybody knows of something equivalent please let me know.

Even though Smart now only make electric vehicles, I reckon an electric remaster of this car would be brilliant Least of all it'd do away with that bad gearbox

Such a good idea that they got so wrong, leaks, electrical issues. Most fun car to drive though.

This car needs a revival with an electric engine. Damn this would be so cool.

It's always more fun to drive something slow fast than something fast slow!

:front end plowing tires with massive understeer JC: "Amazing grip!"

I just got rid of my Fortwo and it broke my heart. I genuinely love the smart line, the fact they dont sell these in the US anymore just bothers me. We have such a weird obsession with enormous vehicles.

If this had a manual box it would have been so much better.

Still have mine after 16 years... despite having an AMG to drive otherwise.

my aunt have a roadstar turbo, it was parked at our house for a few weeks while she was away and i got to drive it. it was honestly such a fun little thing that i ended up taking it out almost everyday and blasting around in it, i loved the handeling of it and the engine and turbo noise right behind you. Edit: i just rememberd this thing also got pedal shifters making it even more awesome in my book :D

I'm sad these things were never sold in America! It reminds me a bit of the Honda Beat. Yeah it's about the size of a Hot Wheels car and the engine is tiny, but they look fun as hell to play around with.

Yeah light cars are the solution. Colin Chapman (Lotus) knew that well.

We had smart Brabus Roadster. Of all the cars we have had, and that's quite a few, we will always remember the smart with affection. It was such a hoot to drive and the Brabus version is quite quick. It was completely trouble free and beautifully made. Such a shame we don't still have it. One day people will pay a lot for these as a classic.No leaks, no electrical issues of any kind, by the way.

Oh how i miss my Smart Roadster Brabus which made me smile for the 5 years i owned it. And after owning many other sportscars since then I have to conclude that on public roads, with speed limits, this is the car i had most fun in!

If Clarkson approves then I need one

I bought one when new and really enjoyed it. I'd happily still have a brabus if they were more reliable

I'm selling mine right now, 130.000km of fun and is still perfect. A very nice car.

I'm a big Jeremy Clarkson fan. I remember Hammond reviewed this car back in the Top Gear days and liked it as well. Sadly we never got this car in the US. Thanks.

I‘m honestly astonished he even fits in that car. I‘m just slightly taller than Jeremy and I only just fit in an Audi TT and the roadster is still a bit smaller.

My wife had the coupe version. It was an amazing little car. But I'd did have problems, water getting into the wiper motor, cracking air con pipes, but it was a brilliant concept...

This is my car haha. I absolutely love my Roadster, her name is Fleur

Its a little cheeky car, fun for the summer, always like these, a really cheap fun runabout

Devil in me, tells me to convert it into an off-roader

Always wanted one of these. I remember speccing one on the website like 20 years ago. Then I saw a friends that had been in a crash and was very glad I didn't.

Thank You! Ich liebe meinen roadster (mein Titelbild) seit 2004 und seit 120 tkm. ER macht einfach nur Spaß!

If only motor journalist got knowledge about how to drive that gearbox it would've turned to a fun test. Gearbox ain't a problem, it's the handling. Change gears like it was an clutch and all of a sudden it goes faster then a standard manual/clutch version.

I did like mine, I covered 80k+ in it. But that gearbox really spoiled the experience. Just imagine how incredible it would have been with a proper manual box.

I had one of these - then I got a VX220 Turbo - honestly this was more fun

It was almost my first car.... but missed out on one so went civic instead..

1:59 suits perfectly to common F1 racing!

Jeremy loves roady 🚀

It is fun! I love mine to bits!

this thing needed a high raving 1.6lt atmo 4 cyl and a manual.

Love this car !!

I see alot of people in early college years driving this.

I always thought it looked like a fun car.

I've got one in the collection of cars, & yes it's a fun little car to drive, Rj in Oz

I've never seen Jeremy less convincing.

Shame he never rolled it, his big head was sticking out. The gearbox works fine when you know how to use it. Including taking it to the redline where it changes on its own

Him drifting: Me: get it I guess ( wish I could do that )

Bellissima!!!!😀😀😀👍👍👍

Would love to drive one of these... With a Suzuki Hayabusa and manual gearbox inside... :D

Did I search for this? No Have I thought about this Top Gear segment once in the last 15 years? No Am I glad I clicked on this video? Oh yes

Can't help but think how much fun it would be to put a better engine and gearbox in it.

I’m not going to lie I would have one. It looks nice in my opinion!

Why have I never heard of this, not sold in the US?

So it is an elongated smart car?

MY ROADSTER BRABUS EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION 2006 SİLVER, ONLY 26.000 MILES. . . I'M THE 2ND OWNER. IT'S A LITTLE FERRARI.

Looks like a fun car!

'Am I a pencil?? Am I a collyflower?? Am I a nuclear powerstation?? IM A GEARBOX!! OH HEAVENS I SWAP SOME COGS AROUND!!! It takes forever'

Great old video, I have Dvd somewhere

I'm about to buy one and maybe god throws down an bike engine while driving and it may accidentally fall into my roadster😉

They need to rebuild this as an electric car it would be so well suited to it

And now you can get one for next to nothing. A good example will run you around 2000 in England.

Such a shame this car doesn't get the powertrain it deserved, could be a fun car

this is an excellent car.

am I a pencil? am I a cauliflower?

such a shame that Dodge didn't produce it for the USA

The transmissions on all smarts of that era take forever to shift. Easily almost a full second between shifts. If they had fixed that the car would have got to 60mph in around 8.5 seconds just from that transmission not sucking

I miss mine

I wish they had made it with a manual and maybe a choice of engines such a good platform wasted really

It's just another smart car in a party frock and now almost 20 yrs later they still command excellent second hand prices

this with a bike engine would be great

Honda 660s and new Copen come v close.

I miss 2003 😢

I love this car. We never got it.

For a moment I read the channel name as "smart roadster" & thought why would they upload a video of their car getting roasted?

Gordon Murray has one.

It just sounds like understeer

I wonder what this could do with a downpipe and a tune

There was massive understeer in one of the corners. Sports cars don’t do that.

He should Review your car

A good platform to put a Hayabusa engine in

did you see his irritated glance back, when the car wanted to roll away because HE GOT OUT?

Put 1.0 turbo vtec of Honda or 1.4GTE one engine

Clarkson can sell me anything

Its like a Lotus if the engine was from a small motorcycle.

I was expecting him to hate it.

So the only way to enjoy this car is to drive it like a chav hooligan?

Nice car, but i just see one in Indonesia

Needs a manual

If this car didn’t look so ugly, I would buy one

Why I read it Smart Roasted by Jeremy Clarkson

Its slow but its fun i get it

The Dodge Slingshot concept was a Smart Roadster in disguise, probably shown to see if there would be any interest. But we got a Ram SRT10 pickup instead.

Sadly, when you live in America like me, there’s not really anything here that Jeremy would consider “lightweight”

This car needs a small rotary engine

German Kei car?

700cc motorised pencil sharpener

Too bad this thing lost to a mini. Oh well, the mini is a lot better though.

Jeremy,ele morreu

I bet now he hate this car.

So old tough...

Indeed smart's gearboxes are the worst

Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they even want to slow down all the gas pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime. Called Bundesabgasbespaßungsverordnung in German.... :-(((

Looks like something a skinny blonde would drive

Sad excuse for a sports car