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Smart will bring back their small two-seat ultra-compact cars.

After killing off the Smart 4-2, they're going to be back with the smart number two,

or the hashtag 2, as I think they want me to call it, but that sounds very 2015 Twitter,

if you ask me.

However, some cool cat around the boardroom at Smart has gone, hey, all the kids are about

hashtags.

Let's call the car the hashtag 2.

Okay. Smart plans to launch three new models in total for those cool kids. So all about the

hashtags. This will be, can it recapture the legend of the Smart 42? I'm so excited about seeing

what they do with this. I love vehicles like this. However, what about family SUVs?

Well, the new Kia EV-5 is gone on sale in the UK at 39295.

So not low enough to be in the new government grant, but lower than the luxury tax threshold

at 40K.

This is right in the wheelhouse of a Model Y, ID4, Aria, buyer. Go and have a look at the EV5. Big vehicle, but loads of tech for your money. Honda is delaying their EV focus, and we'll refocus on shabby hybrids. Not their words in the press release, but Camo on Honda, you can do better than that. You've got some of the best engineering talent in the world. stick a plug on the side of it. The prologue's selling really well, by the way.

They're You can do better than that. You've got some of the best engineering talent in the world. Stick a plug on the side of it. The prolog is selling really well, by the way.

Their first own EVs, as it were, on their own platform, the Zero Series crossover and

salons come out of their Ohio EV hub from 2026. Tesla's European performance is a bit up and down.

Actually, it's mostly down.

Down 84% in Sweden. France down 47%. These are August numbers, by the way. Just to clarify,

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