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Update: New images have surfaced via China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) website. Along with the fresh photos, we've also learned the Smart #6 weighs 4,627 lbs (2,099 kg) in its heaviest configuration.

Kei cars are awesome. The tiny, Japanese-market runabouts have diminutive proportions and puny engines, often delivering no more than 80 horsepower. Having driven one in its home country, it’s easy to see why people are so obsessed with them; they’re cute, charming, and in a jam-packed city like Tokyo, ideal…

“We’re taking our well-known names into the future – the ID.Polo is just the beginning,” says Volkswagen boss

The Smart #2 will be about the same size as the old Fortwo and is coming to China and Europe in 2026.

Launching next year, the Smart #2 will be a “reinvention” of the original tiny city car

Smart hasn’t been the car company we grew up with for quite some time. Back in 2019, Mercedes and Geely set up a 50:50 joint venture to co-manage the Mini rival. Production also shifted to China, while the Hambach plant in France was sold to Ineos, which now builds the…

Smart devices were once hailed as game-changers for senior living—tools that could keep residents safe, connected, and more independent. Voice assistants like Alexa, smartwatches with...

In the heart of Alabama, a shocking labor scandal unfolded that exposed how one of the world’s largest automakers operated. Apparently, Hyundai Motor Company allowed children as young as 12 to work in dangerous factory conditions. Along with its suppliers, Hyundai became embroiled in a child labor controversy that revealed…

The Brooklyn-based photographer on a chance encounter