Two add two equals practicality

摘要

It was always going to be tough keeping up the momentum with a brand iike Smart, which relies on innovative design and says "open your mind". Nargess Shahmanesh-Banks finds out if its new four-seater, the Forfour, manages to do so. Smart felt it was aiming at too small a customer base with only two-seater cars. The Forfour aims to change that. Chief designer Hertmut Sinkwitz says the customer for this car is sympathetic to the Smart brand's youthfulness and freshness, but is in need of more seats. Someone very different from a Fortwo buyer and, says Sinkwitz, perhaps more mainstream.