The Smart Fortwo Is Coming Back As The Mercedes-designed, Geely-built #2

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Mercedes Streeters of nan world, rejoice: The Smart ForTwo is coming back. Smart has announced that, travel precocious 2026, nan world will get to bask a caller mini two-door successor to nan original Smart Car. The institution whitethorn now person a three-car lineup of compact crossovers, but fans of nan marque person missed nan compact metropolis car connected which Smart built its name. By nan extremity of 2026 they'll yet get a caller Mercedes-designed, Geely-built compact runabout known arsenic nan Smart #2. 

Smart's existing lineup is made up of nan #1, nan #3, and nan #5, 3 all-electric crossovers built pinch Geely's knowhow. The caller #2, though, will beryllium thing unsocial — Smart touts an all-new level underpinning nan two-seater, not thing from either genitor automaker's parts bin. That level whitethorn good show up connected different subcompact cars from Geely aliases Mercedes successful nan future, but it sounds for illustration it'll debut pinch nan upcoming miniature Smart. 

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Details are scarce astir nan upcoming two-seater. In fact, beyond "unique platform," "two-seater," "all-electric," "Mercedes design," and "Geely construction," there's small we cognize for sure. The caller car is bound for "China, Europe, and different selected world markets" with a debut group for precocious adjacent year, but Smart's tight-lipped astir what those different world markets whitethorn be. The omission of nan U.S. from nan database doesn't sound promising for immoderate Americans looking to get their hands connected nan newest miniature two-door. 

It shouldn't beryllium astonishing that we'll apt miss retired connected nan caller Smart — nan aged models didn't precisely waste for illustration hotcakes, and that was earlier tariffs connected Chinese automobiles — but astatine slightest immoderate folks astir nan globe will get a caller electrical metropolis car to whisk them astir their fancy overseas locales. We'll conscionable watch from here, noses pressed against nan solid for illustration Dickensian orphans, arsenic buyers astir nan world bop astir connected Smart EV power.