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SMART UTE.(Mercedes-Benz Formore, )(Brief Article)

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Smart, Mercedes-Benz's diminutive global vehicle division, has settled on Formore as the moniker for its first vehicle for the United States. Formore, Smart's fourth model and its first sport/utility vehicle, arrives in 2006.

Actually, Smart defines Formore not as a sport/utility vehi- cle, but as a smart/utility vehicle. The company says the new four-wheel-drive model is suited to all road and driving conditions.

Production begins in early 2006 in the DaimlerChrysler plant in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. The plant can build 60,000 cars per year, of which 50 percent are headed to the United States.

"With the Smart Formore, we will be applying ...

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