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Smart Car Drivers take the Relay

Smart FortwoA relay race between drivers of smart fortwo vehicles has reached the UK leg of its tour.

Drivers are taking the pocket sized cars across 10,000 km and have so far been through Italy, France, Spain, Croatia and Portugal.

The tour arrived in Bristol and will take in all of the UK’s biggest cities, including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast and Newcastle.

After the European leg, the tour heads into Mexico before moving to the US, Canada, Japan and Africa making it a truly global route.

The race aims to transfer a torch from car to car in order to highlight that smart people drive safely, carpages.co.uk reports. It is hoping to encourage people to avoid drink driving and to drive with respect and care in regard to speed limits.

The new smart fortwo is packed with a number of safety features to ensure that drivers remain safe.

Hydraulic brake assist technology initiates a controlled emergency brake while accelerations skid control stops the rear wheel from spinning by transferring the tractive power to the corresponding wheel.

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