Smart ForFour Is Coming Back From The Dead As #4

Smart has precocious confirmed that a caller procreation of the ForTwo is nether improvement and volition debut successful precocious 2026 with the #2 moniker. What came arsenic a surprise, however, is that it volition beryllium aboriginal joined by a much applicable four-door model, the #4, efficaciously reviving the tone of the discontinued ForFour.

Smart Europe CEO Dirk Adelmann confirmed the quality during the caller Munich Motor Show. Speaking to Autocar, helium said that the caller exemplary “needs to look similar a successor” to the aged ForFour, which was fundamentally a stretched mentation of the ForTwo with an other acceptable of doors and 4 seats.

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Naturally, the caller #2 and #4 volition stock the aforesaid basal underpinnings. Unlike the members of the existent Smart lineup that were engineered by Geely successful China, the caller level was developed successful collaboration with Mercedes successful Europe. Adelmann said that this is “very important due to the fact that this squad makes definite that we person a European merchandise that is acceptable for European customers”.

As helium noted, the institution decided to grow the lineup with an further exemplary arsenic they “need the economies of scale”. Smart has been trying to marque a caller ForTwo since 2019 and since they couldn’t find a spouse for associated development, they had to deliberation of different solution.

“We ever were trying to marque it feasible, but it took america 3 years longer than expected…Better precocious than never”, Adelmann explained. He added that the hard portion was to marque the level tiny capable for the #2, arsenic it is “much easier to grow slightly” for the #4.

Our rendering of a astute #4 (above) shadiness based connected the authoritative teaser of the astute #2 (below).

While Smart’s brag didn’t uncover immoderate specs, helium hinted astatine a dual-motor setup and a tiny turning rhythm for the municipality EVs.

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While the astute #2 volition clasp a unsocial positioning arsenic the lone two-seater EV successful Europe’s A-Segment, the #4 volition person to vie with nonstop rivals. These see the upcoming Renault Twingo and the accumulation mentation of the VW ID.Every1 concept.

The Rest Of The Lineup

The #2 and #4 capable the numerical gaps successful Smart’s scope that presently comprises the #1, #3 and #5 models. The naming strategy is evidently not chiefly based connected size, with the adjacent numbers reserved for regular cars and the unusual numbers for SUVs. There are besides reports about a imaginable Smart #6 sedan that would beryllium accordant with this naming scheme.

Besides getting acceptable to unveil the caller products, the institution is moving connected updates for the #1 and #3 crossovers. In 2026, the EVs volition received an important exemplary twelvemonth update including hardware changes, followed by a much extended facelift successful 2027. Note that the #1 debuted successful 2022 arsenic the archetypal exemplary of Smart’s caller era, and the #3 coupe-SUV mentation arrived successful 2023. The boxier #5 that was introduced successful 2024 remains its largest offering yet.

The second-generation of the astute ForFour remained successful accumulation betwixt 2014 and 2021.