
Smart just pulled the covers off its long-awaited two-seat city car months early, and the view is pure urban practicality. Murals painted across Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires and Melbourne gave the first clear look at the production #2. Chinese regulatory filings then filled in the hard numbers. Official world premiere still sits at the Paris Motor Show in October, with customer deliveries planned for 2027.

The Smart #1 is the company’s first all-electric compact SUV, and it’s a doozy. Featuring a centralized, high-performance computing architecture that ensures dynamic over the air updates so that over 75% of all ECUs in the car can be continuously iterated and updated remotely (OTA).