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Now, dear readers, you know how much I love the Smart Fortwo. After all, I own four of them. So it’s going to surprise you to read what I’m about to say.

The iQ drives better than a second-generation Fortwo.

I got to drive the iQ when it hit the streets in the U.S. in 2011 and honestly, it made my 2012 Fortwo feel like a tractor.

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Where my Fortwo’s hard front suspension would break your teeth on Chicago potholes, the iQ felt like a normal car. Where my Fortwo’s clunky transmission polarized drivers, the iQ’s CVT is smooth. And where my Fortwo’s 70 HP 1.0-liter inline three requires 91 octane or better, the iQ’s 94 HP 1.3-liter inline four is fueled with regular.

The iQ’s handling is even sharper than a stock second-generation Fortwo.

My only real complaint about the iQ is that the fourth seat is pretty useless at being a seat for adults. I still prefer the go kart feel and striking looks of my Smart, but the iQ does just about everything better.

I expected — just like Fifth Gear did — for the iQ to take off in sales. But it didn’t. Positive reviews and being good on paper didn’t translate to great sales in the U.S. or Europe. In 2012, Scion sold 8,879 iQs in the U.S. where Smart moved 9,264 Fortwos.

A problem was the iQ’s $16,000 price. While the Fortwo was the cheapest way to get under the Mercedes-Benz umbrella, the iQ had a larger sibling that cost less money.

A 2012 Toyota Yaris had a base price of around $14,000 and its fuel economy figures weren’t much worse than the iQ. It was a similar story in Europe, where the larger Toyota Aygo was cheaper.

Toyota axed the iQ in 2015, ending its experiment to build a better city car. Even if it didn’t sell, the iQ is a brilliant little car. It’s as if Toyota saw what Smart did and decided that they could do even more.

Nowadays an iQ can be had for cheap. So if you’re looking for a tiny runabout and a Smart isn’t for you, give the iQ a chance, it might hit the spot.

The new 2022 Toyota Tundra will continue to offer its iconic powered rear cab window on the upcoming next-gen pickup, which is currently a full-size class exclusive. The feature was visibly confirmed by a teaser for the truck, which also shows off a huge powered glass roof.

The press release featuring the teaser image above was accompanied by only two sentences of text that did not confirm anything specific in writing:

With a host of new features and returning fan favorites, the 2022 Toyota Tundra will expand possibilities for adventure when it is fully unveiled later this fall. Sign up to get the latest updates for the 2022 Toyota Tundra here.

The press release featured an image as well as a short clip showing the roof mechanism opening with the front glass portion sliding over the rear, before panning down to the rear window as it powered down into the truck body behind the rear seats.

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While the truck pretty much leaked in some corners of the internet, Toyota has also already released an image of the 2022 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro model we can expect in full, though we have to wait to see the rest of the lineup still.

The only stuff left to tease are what features are staying, coming or going over the outgoing Tundra, hence a press release like this confirming “fan favorites” like the powered rear window.

The current CrewMax cab option on a handful of the Tundra trims offers what the automaker website describes as a “power vertical sliding rear window with defogger and privacy glass” that is only available on Toyota’s full-size truck, at least in the U.S., for now.

Based on the layout of the 2022 Toyota Tundra “update” website, which has the four official images released so far as well as four more spaces reading “coming soon,” I’d guess we have four more updates before the final big show.

The other two revealed images show off the iForce Max engine cover badge and a tightly-cropped view out of the windshield of the cabin of the truck that shows the top of a large touchscreen dashboard and a steering wheel in a perforated leather-like wrap.

So now that we’ve seen most of the truck, we’re really just awkwardly waiting out the teaser campaign for the full information dump at the truck’s official debut “later this fall.”

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