Smart #5 review

There are six versions, and it's not a simple ladder. Some add kit, some steps are about battery or motors. Pay attention.

The entry-level Pro is £39,800. That's a good price given it gets heated, electrically adjustable front seats, two-zone climate control, a 360-degree parking camera, 19in wheels and an impressive panoramic roof. It might be the smaller of the two batteries, but 288 miles WLTP is more than many. Someone in the family will be crying for a toilet break before the cells are exhausted.

Pro+ takes you to the long-range 800V powertrain, which is 366 miles WLTP and 18-minute 10-80 charging. It also adds faux leather seats and wireless phone charging (although beware that your phone will fly off the pad if you so much as look at a corner). It's £43,800.

The £47,300 Premium trim stays with that powertrain but gets a good basket of extra kit. We might have missed some of it, but obvious items are adaptive matrix headlights, 20in wheels, Sennheiser sound, the passenger screen and HUD, vented front and heated rear seats, heat pump for better winter range and privacy rear glass.

Pulse adds a front motor, and removes some equipment, so it ends up the same price as Premium. Summit is an extra £1,500 over that, and it's mostly about looking off-roady. It also has a standard towbar.

Brabus brings extra power, chunkier-looking alloys, red splashes, much badging, engine sound synthesis, and all the cabin kit of the Premium. It's £51,800 but that's academic because you aren't buying it. No, you aren't.

The Premium on Smart's PCP is £4,825 down and £579 a month, quite a lot because the manufacturer deposit contribution is just £1,000 and interest is 3.9 per cent APR.

Warranty is three years unlimited mileage. The high-voltage system and motor get eight years/100k. The battery itself is eight years/125k but disappointingly, only to 70 per cent state of health, not the industry norm of 80 per cent.