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RenaultSmILE
ProductionUnknown
Recorded originFrance
ClassAutomobile
Also known asSm
Background
SmILE is a showcase car designed for Greenpeace in 1996 to demonstrate how fuel efficient a car can be. The name stands for "Small, Intelligent, Light, Efficient'. It is based on the Renault Twingo, halving its fuel consumption to 3.3 l/100km.
Text adapted from “SmILE” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Record depth — Documented
How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: production chronology, attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.