Smart lowers its prices but puts the noose around your neck

Smart continues to lower the price of the #1 to try to boost sluggish sales. The latest attempt is an attractive long-term lease.

399 euros per month with no down payment for a Smart #1, that’s worth taking a look at. You’ll understand it works because we’ve done it…

Already on the site it starts badly, since the model displayed to promote this offer is a Smart #1 Brabus which, while benefiting from the same offer, has a payment of 518 euros! When most brands resort to the ease of incorporating totally outrageous down payments to lure customers in with ridiculous payments, we were preparing to commend Smart for this no down payment offer… and here they ruin everything with a misleading visual. Tiresome, really tiresome…

Do you have a little time on your hands?

Let’s move on and return to our offer. This is a long-term lease (LLD) for a Smart #1 Pure 49 kWh, over 60 months and 50,000 km. Yes, you read that correctly, a long-term lease of 5 years with 60 payments of 399 euros. First of all, just imagine how outdated an electric car equipped with a battery of only 49 kWh will be in 5 years. And we’re talking about a car that’s already almost 2 years old!

But first, 60 payments of 399 euros bring you to 23,940 euros paid by the time you return the car, which is 70% of its current new value of 33,815 euros! So while the advertisement catches the eye, and for that, kudos to Smart, the offer is ridiculous and should be avoided at all costs. And believe us, if Smart’s advertisers are skilled, the brand’s salespeople are very serious and competent, and we’re sure none will have you sign such a contract…

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