The famous 2000s tiny Smart Car is set to make an electric return next year

The Smart ForTwo became a huge hit when it arrived in Britain at the turn of the Millennium. Its incredibly petite dimensions - measuring in at just 2.5 metres long - made it the ideal motor for nipping around city centres with consummate ease. And it became a comically useful tool for parking, with its diminutive scale meaning it could easily be slotted perpendicularly between two other motors in the tiniest spaces at the roadside. It was available across three generations spanning from 2000 until it was eventually scrapped from the Smart line-up in 2024, some four years after Mercedes' parent company Daimler sold half of the business to Chinese giant Geely. But the laughably compact ForTwo is set to make a return for a fourth series with electric power from next year. It has been previewed as a concept car debuting at this weekend's Beijing motor show. And while it will continue the ForTwo's tradition of bogglingly small measurements, it will come with a new name...