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smart fortwo sounds like a steal, buyers may balk at the final balloon payment.</h2><p class="author"><cite>By Diana T. Kurylko of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://www.autoweek.com/" onclick="return Msn.Navigation.OpenNew(this)">AutoWeek</a></cite></p></div><div id="abody" class="articlebody"><div class="parent insert chrome6 single1 float2 cf" style="width:429px;"><div class="child c1 first"><div class="img"><div><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/photopopup.aspx?cp-documentid=1077876&mediaid=c812f7d087a14e19beaaebf796c3f155" onclick="return Msn.Navigation.OpenPopup(event, this,'width=930,height=560,menubar=0,toolbar=0,scrollbars=0','msnVDW','rf')"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839im_/http://fp.images.autos.msn.com/Media/425x255/c8/c812f7d087a14e19beaaebf796c3f155.jpg" width="425" height="255" alt="2009 smart fortwo (© smart USA)" class="img1"/><span class="click">Click to enlarge picture</span></a></p><p class="abs"><p>Smart offers 36 low monthly payments — with a whopper ($6,667) due at the end.</p></p></div></div></div></div><p>Hoping to benefit from the federal cash-for-guzzlers program, smart USA has set up a $99 monthly payment for buyers who use their $4,500 rebate.</p><p>But there's a catch — and a hefty balloon payment disclosed only as a note to an asterisk in smart's press information announcing the offer. The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://autos.msn.com/browse/Smart.aspx">smart</a> financing is for $99 a month for 36 months, with a balloon payment of $6,667 due at the end.</p><p>Dave Schembri, president of smart USA, says the payments are calculated on a $13,335 fortwo model with air conditioning and includes shipping. Smart has set aside about 1,500 cars for the program, he says.</p><p>Schembri says the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://autos.msn.com/research/vip/default.aspx?make=Smart&model=fortwo" class="VipModelYearSelMM">fortwo</a> will have a 50 percent residual value after 36 months. The fortwo has a combined fuel economy of 36 mpg.</p><p>The rebate legislation, scheduled to go into effect this summer, requires that the car being scrapped have a combined mpg of 18 or less to get the maximum $4,500 incentive if the vehicle being purchased gets at least 10 mpg more than the old one.</p><p>Schembri defends the balloon payment, saying that kind of financing is part of the offerings by Daimler Financial Services — the captive finance arm of Daimler AG, which makes smart.</p><div id="dataproviderfooter"><div class="copyright"> Content provided by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://www.autoweek.com/" onclick="return Msn.Navigation.OpenPopup(this)">AutoWeek</a>.<br></br> Get more <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://www.autoweek.com/section/carnews" onclick="return Msn.Navigation.OpenPopup(this)">Car News</a> from AutoWeek.<br></br> Get the latest <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://www.autoweek.com/section/carreviews" onclick="return Msn.Navigation.OpenPopup(this)">Car Reviews</a> from AutoWeek.<br></br> </div></div></div><div id="recbottom" class="parent chrome2 single1"><strong class="h2">Related Content</strong><div class="child c1 first"><ul class="linklist14 cf"><li class="first"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/listarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=1068789">2010 Model Year Preview</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/listarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=1076425">10 Most User-Recommended Automobiles</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/listarticle.aspx?cp-documentid=1075373">A Convertible for Any Occasion </a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1075850">GM Cars Get Zero-Percent Financing</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1072785">Five Ways Your Car Can Drive Itself</a></li><li class="last"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1071844">Lexus Tops J.D. 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Oh, wait you won't find it here because we are talking about an import, and imports never are a bad deal because they aren't made my money-hungry, evil american workers....</div></h5>chevmom; we don't care much for this car either!  Neither does Daimler and they built it.  Apparantly the buying public doesn't care much for it either!  That's why they are trying to use smoke and mirrors to temp the unsuspecting buyers - As for the car itself, well it speaks volumes for what it isn't. </div></div><div class="iucCmActPnl"><ul class="iucUsrActList"><li><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Reply_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f9('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/post.aspx?fid=16&tid=1183984&pty=0&par=31323366&cid=3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea&cpp=10&otn=0&ppn=ucpg&pip=ucid');">Reply</a></li><li class="last"><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" id="_iucRptAb2" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 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over the final payment.  Smart!  Oops ... this is the 'Smart' car isn't it?  proving not so smart after all, perhaps that is why Daimler divested themselves from it long ago!</div></div><div class="iucCmActPnl"><ul class="iucUsrActList"><li><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Reply_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f9('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/post.aspx?fid=16&tid=1183984&pty=0&par=31322524&cid=3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea&cpp=10&otn=0&ppn=ucpg&pip=ucid');">Reply</a></li><li class="last"><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" id="_iucRptAb3" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Report_Abuse_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f61('_iucRptAb3',31322524,10077511);">Report Abuse</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="iucCmFrAlt"><div class="iucCmUsrInfo"><div><div class="iucNkNm"><a name="uc2Lst31322455" class="iucHdLnk iucCmUsrLnk" 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35th month, right? This is the kind of loan that screwed up the housing market (2% for 36 months, 8% thereafter on a $400,000 McMansion). Baloon payment loans should be outlawed because the people who sign up for them are people that, by definition, cannot afford the cars; if they could, they'd have signed a $300/month 36-month loan with no baloon payment</div></div><div class="iucCmActPnl"><ul class="iucUsrActList"><li><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Reply_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f9('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/post.aspx?fid=16&tid=1183984&pty=0&par=31284309&cid=3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea&cpp=10&otn=0&ppn=ucpg&pip=ucid');">Reply</a></li><li class="last"><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" id="_iucRptAb6" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Report_Abuse_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f61('_iucRptAb6',31284309,10647762);">Report Abuse</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="iucCmFr"><div class="iucCmUsrInfo"><div><div class="iucNkNm"><a name="uc2Lst31283256" class="iucHdLnk iucCmUsrLnk" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/profile.aspx?ForumID=16&UserID=62124&md=ic">The Boss of them ALL</a></div><div class="iucCmNo"><span class="iucCmIndx"> #7</span></div></div><div class="iucCmDt">Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:10:08 AM</div></div><div class="iucCmArea"><div class="iucCmBdy-en"><p>Ramon Viggiani <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/mailto:-rviggian@hotmail.com" title="mailto:-rviggian@hotmail.com">-rviggian@hotmail.com</a>-</p> <p> </p> <p>Well...It looks like we will have around 1,500 smartcars up for sale for around $6,667, I think I'll wait.</p> <p> </p> <p>But hey, the $4,500 cash for clunkers should go in addition to what the clunker is valued in the blue book.<img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839im_/http://boards.msn.com/Themes/default/emoticons/teeth_smile.gif" alt="Open-mouthed" class="emoticon"/><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839im_/http://boards.msn.com/Themes/default/emoticons/teeth_smile.gif" alt="Open-mouthed" class="emoticon"/><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839im_/http://boards.msn.com/Themes/default/emoticons/teeth_smile.gif" alt="Open-mouthed" class="emoticon"/></p> <p>So, if I trade my 2002 Mountaineer, that has a Trade in Value of $8,000, plus those $4,500, that's $12,500. So technically, the Smart-car should only cost me: $835 TOTAL!</p> <p> </p> <p>Am I the only one seeing this????????????????</p> <p> </p> <p>There is something else very very wrong with the whole thing <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839im_/http://boards.msn.com/Themes/default/emoticons/sad_smile.gif" alt="Sad" class="emoticon"/><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839im_/http://boards.msn.com/Themes/default/emoticons/sad_smile.gif" alt="Sad" class="emoticon"/><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839im_/http://boards.msn.com/Themes/default/emoticons/sad_smile.gif" alt="Sad" class="emoticon"/>, my wife who just graduated to be a public first grade teacher, has a very economical "gas wise" 2001 Kia Spectra, that is falling apart inside and out. Why would someone that is risking her life each and every day to go work at a Title One impoverished public school ,  not have the same opportunity as well?</p> <p> </p> <p>You see, there is not much room to grow your salary as an elementary teacher, if she can not afford a new car now, there is a high chance she wont be able to afford it next year, or the year after that, and so forth.</p> <p> </p></div></div><div class="iucCmActPnl"><ul class="iucUsrActList"><li><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Reply_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f9('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/post.aspx?fid=16&tid=1183984&pty=0&par=31283256&cid=3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea&cpp=10&otn=0&ppn=ucpg&pip=ucid');">Reply</a></li><li class="last"><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" id="_iucRptAb7" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Report_Abuse_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f61('_iucRptAb7',31283256,62124);">Report Abuse</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="iucCmFrAlt"><div class="iucCmUsrInfo"><div><div class="iucNkNm"><a name="uc2Lst31281542" class="iucHdLnk iucCmUsrLnk" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/profile.aspx?ForumID=16&UserID=12435064&md=ic">Rogue Welder</a></div><div class="iucCmNo"><span class="iucCmIndx"> #8</span></div></div><div class="iucCmDt">Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:30:52 AM</div></div><div class="iucCmArea"><div class="iucCmBdy-en">Am I the only one that sees the (6,66)7 in the balloon payment?  So what if you can't afford that at the end, you go straight to hell?  I mean come on already!  Isn't that balloon payment idea that destroyed the housing market?  I have a better idea....drop the damn prices of vehicles and housing to a reasonable rate that MOST Americans can afford.  Buy American...., but the CEO's of those (the BIG 3) companies will never convince me that it costs $30,000 for a car that looks like it should be around $10,000.  Even with the over-inflated wages the Union Employee thinks he needs.  I believe that all the officers of the corporation feel they have to go to Cabo every summer.  STOP gouging the honest working mans' wallet and try and be honest yourselves!.</div></div><div class="iucCmActPnl"><ul class="iucUsrActList"><li><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Reply_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f9('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/post.aspx?fid=16&tid=1183984&pty=0&par=31281542&cid=3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea&cpp=10&otn=0&ppn=ucpg&pip=ucid');">Reply</a></li><li class="last"><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" id="_iucRptAb8" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Report_Abuse_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f61('_iucRptAb8',31281542,12435064);">Report Abuse</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="iucCmFr"><div class="iucCmUsrInfo"><div><div class="iucNkNm"><a name="uc2Lst31279201" class="iucHdLnk iucCmUsrLnk" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/profile.aspx?ForumID=16&UserID=4473502&md=ic">crxdriver</a></div><div class="iucCmNo"><span class="iucCmIndx"> #9</span></div></div><div class="iucCmDt">Tuesday, July 07, 2009 6:35:36 AM</div></div><div class="iucCmArea"><div class="iucCmBdy-en">So what do us Honda CRX driver get for trading in our cars that getup to 45 miles a gallon?  I would like a new car, that will not cost a arm and a leg to buy.</div></div><div class="iucCmActPnl"><ul class="iucUsrActList"><li><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Reply_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f9('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/post.aspx?fid=16&tid=1183984&pty=0&par=31279201&cid=3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea&cpp=10&otn=0&ppn=ucpg&pip=ucid');">Reply</a></li><li class="last"><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" id="_iucRptAb9" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Report_Abuse_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f61('_iucRptAb9',31279201,4473502);">Report Abuse</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="iucCmFrAlt"><div class="iucCmUsrInfo"><div><div class="iucNkNm"><a name="uc2Lst31276857" class="iucHdLnk iucCmUsrLnk" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/profile.aspx?ForumID=16&UserID=3930911&md=ic">chevmom</a></div><div class="iucCmNo"><span class="iucCmIndx"> #10</span></div></div><div class="iucCmDt">Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:37:52 AM</div></div><div class="iucCmArea"><div class="iucCmBdy-en">where's all that chatter about how american car companies suck? Oh, wait you won't find it here because we are talking about an import, and imports never are a bad deal because they aren't made my money-hungry, evil american workers....</div></div><div class="iucCmActPnl"><ul class="iucUsrActList"><li><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Reply_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f9('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/post.aspx?fid=16&tid=1183984&pty=0&par=31276857&cid=3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea&cpp=10&otn=0&ppn=ucpg&pip=ucid');">Reply</a></li><li class="last"><a class="iucHdLnk iucCmActPnlLnk" id="_iucRptAb10" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Report_Abuse_Click');" href="javascript:_uc2f61('_iucRptAb10',31276857,3930911);">Report Abuse</a></li></ul></div></div><div style=" display:block;" class="iucPagPnl iucCf iucPagPnlBot" id="ucpgB"><div class="iucChild iucC1"><input type="hidden"/></div><div class="iucChild iucC2">1-10 of 12</div><div class="iucChild iucC3"><span class="iucPrev iucPrevHidden"><a class="iucHdLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Previous_Click');" href="">Previous</a></span><span class="iucNext"><a class="iucHdLnk" onclick="_iuc2Om2('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Next_Click');" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1077876&ucpg=2#uc2Lst">Next</a></span></div></div><script type="text/javascript">_ucf13('0'); _iuc2Om1('MSNPortalInlineComments','Initial_Load_Comment_View','https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1077876&','en-us');</script></div><div style="display:none; width:31em;" id="_iucDelCm"><div class="iucDelShadow"><div class="iucPopup"><div>Are you sure you want to delete this comment?</div><div class="iucPopupCmd"><input type="button" onclick="javascript:_uc2f8('https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/DeletePost.ashx', '3ghwckfcausycg4xpncw7ee0fwe0c2ea', 0, -1, '-1', 0);_iuc2Om3('MSNPortalInlineComments', 'Actual_Delete');" id="btn_ok0" value="Delete"/><input type="button" value="Cancel" onclick="javascript:_uc2f7(_uc2v7,_uc2v10);"/><input type="hidden" id="_iucPostID"/><input type="hidden" id="_iucHashed"/><input type="hidden" id="_iucUserID"/></div></div></div></div><div id="_iucRptAbs" style="display:none; width:30em;"><div class="iucDelShadow"><div class="iucPopup"><form class="iucPopupRpt" method="post" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20090709202839/http://boards.msn.com/ReportAbuse.ashx?RptAbsRU=http%3a%2f%2feditorial.autos.msn.com%2farticle.aspx%3fcp-documentid%3d1077876"><div class="iucRptHd">Report Abuse</div><div class="iucRptMsg"><span>Please help us to maintain a healthy and vibrant community by reporting any illegal or inappropriate behavior. 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