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I mean, a modern car in good maintenance can drive for absurdly long distances without giving the slightest issue, and a Smart is not a cheap car with shitty components.
In my experience it's very sensitive to lateral winds, so a journey like that can't be all fun, but it's definitely not that unlikely.
Hmmm just out of curiosity I looked up weight to power ratios
A 2016 Smart Fortwo Proxy has 22.29 lb/HP
A 2016 Chevy Spark LS 23.25 has lb/HP
A 2016 Audi A3 2.0TDI Prestige Sedan has 21.16 lb/HP
Completely reasonable to take through the rockies. Most sedans of that year are sitting between 10-17 lb/HP which makes the smartcar a bit underpowered (gasp!) but not unreasonable.
How much do those numbers change when you add the weight of at least one person with everything they own to it? Probably a lot more substantially for the smart car (though it still wouldn't surprise me that much. People were driving some much heavier and lower powered cars thru the mountains in years past)