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Calling all smart enthusiasts!  You are cordially invited to attend Hampton Roads' first smart car meet-up this year!  Ring in 2010 by spending a little time with other smart fortwo owners and enthusiasts right here in your local community.  Meet and eat with fellow smarties at 1:00pm on January 30th, 2010 at Doumar's, 1919 Monticello Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23517. 

If you haven't driven a smart car yet, or don't even know what I'm talking about, that's ok.  Checkered Flag's smart brand speciallists David Bennet, Aran Benjamin, and Kate Heidbrink are here at smart center Virginia Beach Monday through Saturday 12-7pm to introduce you to the biggest little car in town, answer your smart questions, and take you for a spin!  To learn a little about the cars online, or schedule an appointment visit smart center Virginia Beach, or just stop by the showroom at 5193 Virginia Beach Blvd today for your test drive!

For more information about the Hampton Roads smart Meet and Eat, and to RSVP, visit www.smartcarofamerica.com > Community> forums> Chapters and Regions> Mid-Atlantic Region> Hampton Roads Meet and Eat- Jan2010

Calling all smart enthusiasts!  You are cordially invited to attend Hampton Roads' first smart car meet-up this year!  Ring in 2010 by spending a little time with other smart fortwo owners and enthusiasts right here in your local community.  Meet and eat with fellow smarties at 1:00pm on January 30th, 2010 at Doumar's, 1919 Monticello Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23517. 

If you haven't driven a smart car yet, or don't even know what I'm talking about, that's ok.  Checkered Flag's smart brand speciallists David Bennet, Aran Benjamin, and Kate Heidbrink are here at smart center Virginia Beach Monday through Saturday 12-7pm to introduce you to the biggest little car in town, answer your smart questions, and take you for a spin!  To learn a little about the cars online, or schedule an appointment visit smart center Virginia Beach, or just stop by the showroom at 5193 Virginia Beach Blvd today for your test drive!

For more information about the Hampton Roads smart Meet and Eat, and to RSVP, visit www.smartcarofamerica.com > Community> forums> Chapters and Regions> Mid-Atlantic Region> Hampton Roads Meet and Eat- Jan2010

smart is staying true to its brand slogan "open your mind" and opening to outside ideas with a design contest. From 6 January 2010 fans of smart and design worldwide are invited to design a smart fortwo on the website www.styleyoursmart.com. smart is looking for the coolest smart design and will award prizes with a total value of $7200 to the winners.

Marc Langenbrinck, Managing Director smart brand and Head of Sales & Marketing smart says "In our daily contact with our customers we keep experiencing how passionate they are about smart. Many of them personalize their smart with products from our wide range of accessories. Lots of them go even further and realize their own ideas. We are now taking this up. The design contest offers all smart drivers and fans a platform to lend expression to their creativity."

Participants can give free rein to their imagination. A design configurator is available on the online platform www.styleyoursmart.com. It offers a multitude of colors, prints, patterns and shapes. At the same time budding artists can also develop their own graphic ideas. In addition, they can exchange views with other contestants and comment on and rate ideas and designs. In this way a design community for car enthusiasts and smart fans will be created.

Designs can be put online until 23 February 2010. An independent expert jury will subsequently select the best contributions based on the community ratings. The winners will be announced on the website on 26 February 2010 and can look forward to prizes totaling $7,200.

"Style your smart" is one of more than 1200 ideas submitted by the "Business Innovation Community", a Web 2.0 platform on the Daimler intranet. Employees can post their ideas here - and their colleagues from other departments and regions can comment on them, rate them and further develop them.

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