When I decided to leave The New York Times for a new career as a college professor in my home state of Texas, I realized we were going to have to get our cars across the country, including my rattletrap of a 2008 Smart.I love the ungainly thing, having put down a deposit as soon as I could in 2007, when Smart announced it was coming to the U.S. market, and even wrote about the experience of buying and owning it for The Times’s Wheels blog.But it’s feeling its age — remember, it’s from the time of …
