So there’s a few things to sort out about the Smart #1 before we get onto what a nice little electric car it is. First, the name. You pronounce it “Smart Hashtag One”. I know. Smart have a history of absurd punctuation, like when they rebranded the original tiny two-seat Smart car saloon as Smart ForTwo, which I’d have pronounced as “Smart For No Space Two”, which would have been appropriate given that there wasn’t much space for more than two people anyway.
Even now they try and make out that Smart should be “smart”, but I’m not having that, any more than I was going to go along with BMW calling the Mini “MINI”. By the way, back in the days when a Smart was a microcar, there was also a fun-packed Roadster, and also a couple of iterations of the Smart ForFour, which also didn’t have a space in the nomenclature, but, at least in Edition 1 form did and was a badly underestimated car (and all now rare).
