Kansas City: So Smart

Mercedes has been selling its smallest and cheapest car – the Smart – in Europe for years. So it only makes sense that they’re bringing it to the Paris of the Midwest.

The car, which costs between $12,000 and $17,000, doesn’t go on sale on this side of the pond until early next year. But this morning, Smart brought one by The Pitch office for a quick test spin. And, uh, spin is a good word for a vehicle with a turning radius that makes it feel like we ought to be on a go-cart track. With only about a half hour in the thing before it continued its tour across town, we took the little European immigrant on a sight-seeing tour.