The Smart #1 electric SUV costs from £35,950 in the UK, with a choice of three trim levels – Pro +, Premium and Brabus. It’s a year since the first fruit of the ‘new’ Smart from the Mercedes-Geely partnership was revealed as the Smart #1, an EV around the size of a MINI Countryman promising […]

The Smart #3, the second new electric SUV from the Mercedes Geely partnership, is revealed ahead of a European debut at the Munich Motor Show. The reinvention of Smart under the point ownership of Mercedes and Geely revealed the first fruits of its labours with the Smart #1 almost exactly a year ago, an electric […]

The Smart #3 electric SUV is teased as the Mercedes Geely Smart partnership heads for a debut in April at the Shanghai Motor Show. It’s almost a year since the first fruits of the Mercedes-Geely partnership to reinvent the Smart brand as a ‘Premium’ EV offering arrived in the guise of the quite compact Smart […]

The new electric Smart #1 SUV, the first from the Geely-Mercedes venture, is getting a performance Brabus version, due to debut on 26 August. Brabus has been turning out cosmetically titivated and performance-boosted versions of Mercedes’ best for a long time, and that has extended to Smart cars too, the last we saw being the Electric […]

The reinvention of Smart under the ownership of Mercedes and Geely begins with the reveal of the 264bhp electric Smart #1. Smart may have been around as a maker of small, quirky cars for nearly 30 years, first as a Swatch with wheels part-owned by Mercedes, and latterly as a fully Mercedes-owned punt at convincing […]

As the debut of the new electric Smart SUV – the Smart #1 – nears, the Mercedes-Geely joint venture teases its arrival. In case you hadn’t noticed, Smart is now a joint venture between Mercedes and Geely, and it’s moving away from building tiny city cars like the ForTwo – and bigger ones like the […]

SMART reveals a first look at their new electric compact SUV – dubbed SMART #1 – as it prepares to launch the new model later in 2022. After years of limping along, propped-up by Mercedes money and seemingly never making a profit, SMART is now a joint venture between Mercedes and Geely and is planning […]

Smart starts its move to deliver a new range of electric cars with an electric SUV Concept similar in size to the MINI Countryman. Smart is entering a new era, now under joint ownership between Geely and Mercedes, and that means a new range of cars. All electric, naturally. Having popped its corporate head over […]

Smart delivers a new ‘limited edition’ model – the Smart EQ Fortwo Racing Green Edition – with Brabus touches and a £24,595 price tag. Smart cars are something of a Marmite choice, with some thinking their dinky size and originality make paying the high prices Smart ask well worth it, and others confused why a […]

The first new model from Smart since it became a Mercedes/Geely joint venture is teased as an electric Smart SUV. Smart has had something of a chequered history, from starting out as a project of Swatch watches and teaming up with Mercedes – and apparently struggling to ever make a profit, despite ‘premium’ prices – […]