The irreversible process with which the Smart brand distorts its range continues. The latest model is huge but also unrecognizable compared to the classic ones.
Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to become the villain, he said a beautiful phrase of the film The dark Knight by Christopher Nolan; in the case of Smart, we could paraphrase the saying with an Either you die from a city car, or you live long enough to produce SUVs and off-road vehicles. The German company, which started in the nineties with the aim of revolutionizing mobility with small cars, has radically changed direction. And he doesn’t seem ready to go back.
If the brand has already shown clearly the intention to concentrate on the SUV sector, among other things by retiring the historic Fortwo city car, its first historic car, now it also seems ready to throw itself into a ramification of this market which, to be honest, it had already touched once despite not experiencing such a meteoric success .
Let’s talk about the off-road car market in which Smart had appeared already in 1998 with the small Smart Crossblade, a particular and very strange car that could be considered both a super small car and an off-road vehicle, given its lightened bodywork and particular set-up. Now, however, the brand has learned from the past: it will do things big.
Smart, is the off-road vehicle coming?
After presenting Smart SUVs #1 and #3 the German house relaunches with a completely new model. This time it is a vehicle more similar to a real off-road vehicle than to an SUV for the city, with a high ground clearance, a robust bodywork that vaguely resembles that of a Range Rover and tires suitable for all types of terrain . An incredible car that we never expected to see with the Smart brand on the bonnet.
It is in fact called Smart #5 and it is the new concept car from the German company which thus shows its desire to venture into a sector that has been little explored by other city car manufacturers. Presented at the Beijing Motor Show, the #5 is over 4 meters long and according to experts it could be the largest and heaviest Smart ever presented to the public. Obviously, it’s all electric.
The car should be fitted with a 100 watt hour battery which would make it capable of tackling a journey of 550 kilometers before having to stop at the charging station to recharge. On board we also find modern options such as a system of artificial intelligence and a sliding glass roof that improves the brightness on board. It’s difficult to imagine other details because, as mentioned, this is a pre-production car. Will they really do it? At this point, it’s very likely
