Renault Twingo of their existing partnership, announced "Project Edison", a collaboration aimed at conceiving a shared platform for small city cars to be shared by both companies. The first cars using the platform were the third generation Twingo and the second generation Smart Forfour. Renault and Daimler invested equally during the research and development phase, with Renault subsequently specializing in the engines and Daimler in transmissions. Both companies tried to ensure a distinctive design. Renault designers took inspiration from the Renault 5. and the first generation Twingo, The car was originally launched with four colour options, as with the original Twingo. The
All models are wrong Similarly, in 1947, John von Neumann said that "truth … is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations". All models are wrong "All models are wrong" is a common aphorism in statistics. It is usually considered to be applicable to not only statistical models, but to scientific models generally. The aphorism is generally attributed to the statistician George Box, although the underlying concept predates Box's writings. The first record of Box saying "all models are wrong" is in a 1976 paper published in the "Journal of the American Statistical Association". The paragraph containing the aphorism is below. Box repeated