About the logo

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The smart logo is a C with an arrow head C> which is used to represent compact and forward thinking.

It's also the original C prompt from the DOS operating system.

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Permalink Reply by Gary on August 23, 2008 at 3:51pm: That was C:>; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andrew Forrest on August 25, 2008 at 6:38pm: Respectfully disagree. The original prompt consisted of the drive letter and the greater than sign "C>". Using the prompt command:

prompt $p$g would give you this:

C:\>

The colon only appears when indicating a directory in this case root.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mr bad example on August 25, 2008 at 7:52pm: true, funny, i just disassembled my old 386 that ran DOS 6.0, i started running WIN 95 in the summer of '96 with a dell 486dx2-66, now i'm running a dell vostro 200 core2 duo 2.2 GHz

i went kicking and screaming into WIN95 (i deleted 95 on the dell, and when i couldn't load DOS 6.0 on it, i reloaded 95 and learned to live with it)

i'm not sure about future windows, i hate vista, running 95 and XP on my computers, i'll go linux if windows makes another fat program like vista.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andrew Forrest on August 25, 2008 at 8:10pm: The best OS experience for me was Win3.1 with Cemtral Points PC Tools for Windows running as the shell. Very Mac like, multiple desktops, logins rights etc. and fast as all hell.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by 451 Kahn on August 23, 2008 at 5:33pm: The current Smart brand logo denotes a letter "c" for "compact" and an arrow for "forward thinking".; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SATO on August 24, 2008 at 12:16pm: the dumbest logo in automotive history! in my opinion.... It refers nothing to the name or brand recognition. It should have been a non letter symbol for compact and forward thinking... WAIT! the car is not considered compact.. its not even sub compact... It's more Micro than anything else.......... maybe it should have been M> or MC> hell just go for it...E= MC2; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mr bad example on August 24, 2008 at 2:01pm: why not go one step further... "µ" for "micron"?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mr bad example on August 24, 2008 at 4:20pm: "µ" would be great, keep 'em guessing what it is, i'll probably "re-brand" mine as a mercedes soon. "µ" might be too difficult for normal people to understand.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by 451 Kahn on August 25, 2008 at 9:21pm: I think the logo should be something like this cartoon below; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ian Pellant on August 29, 2008 at 3:18am: Love the cartoon.

I'm not fussed about the logo and would not put a standard M-B badge on my car... there are a lot of Mercedes A Class cars around here that look too much like a fortwo (or forfour)... I don't want to be seen as another one of them.

What does bug me more is that where I live now, in the State of Queensland, the State motto is "The Smart State". Smart this and that all over the place... yet at the gas pump, I'll look like the dude in the cartoon since half the cars here are 4WD SUV's and Utes (on a diesel diet).

Has anyone seen any black "smart" stickers that would suit a yellow on black fortwo... sort of side racing stripe style?; ▶ Reply to This