How To Identify a smart fortwo cdi in Canada

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What to look for when spotting a fortwo cdi in Canada. Looking at the wheels or tridion colour can be misleading. Actually, there can be so many deviations, including after-sale modifications it can be tricky. One or more of the following tips should give you a definitive answer...

How to identify a smart fortwo cdi in Canada from quite a long way away:

Badging in mirror triangle

white lettering on grey, opaque: pure

black lettering on silver, translucent: pulse

silver lettering on black, translucent: passion

Note: There are special editions with similar or different badges

Badge inside windshield, on dashboard

Special editions, numbered

Frame colours

black grille: pure

silver grille: pulse or passion

black rear view mirrors: pure or pulse

silver rear view mirrors: passion

Bodypanels

stream green (green-yellow): pulse

river silver metallic (bright silver): pulse ('06) or passion

ruby red metallic (brownish-red): passion ('06)

green metallic (dark): grandstyle special edition, based on a passion

(others): Check interiour colours, below

Interiour colours

scodic grey fabric (medium grey): pure

twister green or blue fabric: pulse

bungee red or grey fabric: passion

black leather seats with some twister blue fabric: pulse

black leather seats with some bungee grey fabric: passion

beige leather seats and trims and black leather-like material on dash: grandstyle special edition

black leather seats and trims and dash, with stitching to match rest of car's custom colour: Canada 1 custom order

Coupé or cabriolet

Hard top: coupé

Fabric top: cabriolet

Window triangle in side, behind tridion: coupé

Black fabric in side, behind tridion: cabriolet

Large rear window (glass): coupé

Smaller plastic rear window surrounded by fabric: cabriolet

Mysterious stubby thing on frame above windshield: cabriolet

Rear tailgate has a convex bulge over the handle: cabriolet

[Diesel Dave 11]

Quite a list and totally accurate. I never really thought about it before but as you say, you can't have leather seats with twister green or bungee red trim.

[RichHelms 1]

you can't have leather seats with twister green

That is why I didn't get the leather seats. I loved the twister green.

[ARTZ 0]

When you get leather on a pulse model what colour is the leather and what colour is the dash?

[Diesel Dave 11]

On a pulse, the leather would be black and the trim would be twister blue grey. On a passion, the leather would be black and the trim would be bungee grey.