Well originally, it WAS going to be imported. But then they looked at the market, and they concluded that the car was too small for people to want to buy it, so they decided to limit their sales to Canada and only import the SUV Smart Car, since they said the market in America was mostly obsessed with SUV's. I read this in the Chicago Sun Times, but I can't remember which month, sorry. Sometime between July and September.
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