Smart USA has just announced that it will launch a new smart five-door model just for the United States market. The new smart five-door will be premiered within the next 15 months and will be based on vehicle architecture from Nissan. The new smart five-door model comes to fulfill the brand's needs to cover this market segment on the North American market. The new smart five-door model will have five seats. No further details of the new smart five-door model have been released.
The company also announced that the new smart five-door will be sold though its 75 dealerships in the United States, which will also offer service for the new cars.
We'll have more details on the new smart five-door as
soon as the become available.
Smart Press Release:
smart USA intends to launch a five-door car on the US market within the next 15 months. This was announced by smart USA in Detroit today.
The B-segment five-door car is to be sold solely in the United States and is based on vehicle architecture from Nissan. This will allow the demand of US smart customers and dealers for a larger but smart-typical car to be fulfilled very soon.
“We are faced with continuing customer demand for a smart car with more seating capacity,” explained Roger Penske, Chairman of the Penske Automotive Group. “Sales and service of the five seater will be carried out exclusively by our approximately 75 smart dealerships in the United States. Together with Nissan, we will bring to
market a fully equipped small car for our customers and dealers in the USA. It will fit in well with the smart brand.”
Further details of the product and its distribution will be announced at a later date.
smart USA, a company of the Penske Automotive Group, opened up the micro-car segment in the United States with the launch of the smart fortwo in 2008, and recently created great interest with the announcement of the smart fortwo electric drive.
