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Car manufacturer Mercedes Benz on Wednesday unveiled a chocolate-themed version of its Smart car in Tokyo, just a couple of weeks before St. Valentine's Day Car manufacturer Mercedes Benz on Wednesday unveiled a chocolate-themed version of its Smart car in Tokyo, just a couple of weeks before St. Valentine's Day. It was uncovered at the International Fashion Fair in Tokyo. The car looks as if it is fully wrapped up by hundreds of chocolate bars. The body and interior of the two-seater compact car were specially designed by Japanese accessory maker Q-pot for the fashion event.

Smart Marketing in Japan The clever "vending machine" pictured above is located in Japan. You can't really buy a smart car from it, but you can get brochures and info about the various smart models. Yeah, it is anti-climactic. Smart Car: Good and Bad The smart fortwo is certainly a mixed bag. While the diesel version gets in the 60+ miles per gallon range and can be run on biodiesel, the gasoline version is only rated at a combined 36 miles per gallons by the EPA . But that doesn't take away from the smart's impact in making very small urban cars more mainstream, and making other compact cars look bigger in comparison. Upcoming Smart-like Cars The teacher might soon be surpassed by the students: Toyota's iQ urban microcar looks like it might be more practical with its 3+1 seating configuration, and it will probably have better performance and fuel economy than the smart car in the gasoline model. There's also the all-electric Mitsubishi's i M...