The Smart 1 by Mercedes-Benz and Geely comes in Premium and high-performance Brabus variants. We were given the chance to drive both at Proton's test track at Shah Alam. Learn more:
will enter a market swamped by competitors. There are already plenty of worthy rivals in the premium compact electric vehicle sector from the likes of BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo, not to mention a pair of credible Korean models from Hyundai and Kia. And we haven’t even talked about the elephant in the room—the Tesla Model Y that was launched just this week.
To recap, the #1 is a small electric crossover that’s around the same size as a Mini Countryman—meaning that it’s smaller than models from mainstream premium brands like the BMW iX1, Mercedes-Benz EQA and Volvo XC40. It’s built on Geely’s Sustainable Experience Architecture that also underpins the new Volvo EX30.
The Brabus certainly felt as fast as the bald figures suggested. Initial acceleration from a standstill was ferocious, and the car kept pulling hard until well into triple figures. Fitted with the upgraded sports suspension, the car felt stiff, bouncing over the rougher patches of the banking, but it never wandered out of its lane even at the maximum allowed speed of 120km/h.
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