INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH: Brabus Smart — excitement of fast and fun town driving
IT DOESN’T feel like a Brabus, yet it still feels like a Smart, albeit a very well trimmed and much faster one. It’s a shame it’s judged on its 0-100km/h time, when 99% of a Smart Brabus’s time will be spent below 80km/h, or even 60km/h. In that context, it’s quicker, stronger and more fun in its intended environs than its 9.5 second sprint to 100km/h suggests.Most of the cars Brabus gets involved with are built to scare people. Perhaps the only truly scary thing about the Brabus version of the Smart is that there’s really no upper limit to how much you could make one of the 2.7m tearaways actually cost.It wasn’t that long ago, for example, that offering to match the car’s interior leather with a favourite handbag or the exterior with a favourite lipstick was the preserve of low-volume supercar makers like Lamborghini or Ferrari. Now you can do it on a Smart, if you’re prepared to fund it.The entry price for the ForTwo version is R308,200, with the ForFour model starting at R313,300...
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