Does anyone have a Smart Forfour 04 in Auto?

[Jamaica]

How do these cars drive and how reliable are they, they seem to get amazing MPG. After a small auto for my wife, was looking at a Jazz but these Smart cars seem decent.

[duckwhistle]

Look at a Suzuki Splash auto, neat little thing ,cheap to run and reliable. Cheap servicing & repairs.

[Jamaica]

duckwhistle said:

Look at a Suzuki Splash auto, neat little thing ,cheap to run and reliable. Cheap servicing & repairs.

Hi, are the gearboxes in these reliable.

[Scrump]

That generation of Forfour is mechanically the same as Mitsubishi colt so you may find more info on ownership by looking for feedback on those.

[Desiderata]

My brother is on his third, or rather he's had two and currently has a Mitsubishi colt which the 4four is based on. The Mitsubishi version is just as good but seems to be a bit cheaper on the second hand market.
He took the first two to 150000 + miles and the only major problem was a dodgy electronic gear changer on the first (it's actually a normal manual box with an added automatic changer rather than a full automatic box) which he replaced with one from a scrappy.
The current one is only on 120000 miles but still going strong.
His have all been 1.5 diesels, getting 70+mpg.
He swears by them.

[duckwhistle]

Jamaica said:

Hi, are the gearboxes in these reliable.

Yes.