SMART #5 BRABUS £52,000 (est)

AFTER PRODUCING THE FORTWO AND FORFOUR for years, it seems that Smart now has an issue with even numbers.

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FOR Impressively refined, looks like lots of kit for the money

AGAINST Brabus version is far too fast, needs more physical buttons

First up for the electric rebirth was the #1, a fairly generic small electric crossover. Then came the #3, which was essentially a slightly larger and coupe-ified version of the #1. And now it’s the turn of the #5.

The #5 is the biggest car Smart has ever built at almost 4.7m long, 1.9m wide and 1.7m tall. To put that into context, it’s ever so slightly larger in every direction than the Skoda Enyaq. So yes, Smart wants you to think of this as a proper SUV, which is precisely why it has been styled to look like a slightly smoothed and shrunken G-Wagen. More than a hint of Mercedes GLB (or EQB if you're talking electric) in the looks too. The newly split front light bar is apparently supposed to give it a tougher face than the other cars in the range.