Monday 11th March 2002

Brabus merge with Smart

New company will produce beefed up city cars

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[Lionchild]

Are you kidding? These cars are available and have been for years. Where is News in this?

[JonRB]

Its news because Brabus and MCC Smart have been completely separate companies up to now. Brabus have acted as just a tuning firm up to now.

[PetrolTed]

The company is now jointly owned by Brabus. That's what the news is. Thank you for asking...

[GregE240]

So is this Daimler Chrysler buying up another tuning company ? I thought that M-B already owned a large proportion of MCC ?

[PetrolTed]

No, this is Brabus buying into Smart not the other way around.

[rthierry]

eh eh eh... saw a couple of these Brabus tuned Smart looks funny. Although I am not sure they do anything to improve the weakest points of the car, i.e. slow gear change. Anyway 70bhp on a smart must be a shick considering I feel my 45bhp one is already quite zippy.
That's the way forward: power.. more power... and even more power... Oh! and plenty of nice airbags

[Leadfoot]

How much power would one need to wheelie then?