Category: City Cars 
Price Range: £9,149 to £9,149
Quirky, unbelievably spacious, ideal for city driving, economical and tax-efficient.
May look too oddball for some, no manual gearbox option, poor audio system.
The four-seater Smart should have made.
The aluminium spaceframe structure is lightweight but strong and, like Smart's safety cell design, has been developed to divert forces away from the occupants in the event of an impact. It is undoubtedly safer than the 'quadricycle' microcars currently on the market (G-Wiz, Ligier Ambra and suchlike).
It more than meets Japanese and European safety standards for proper passenger cars (which the quadricycles are exempt from) and should be a tough little 'un. Twin front airbags are standard, four three-point seatbelts and Isofix child seat mounting points; no side airbags, however, nor stability control, which would be reassuring in a tall, upright car like this.
Security-wise, there's an alarm and an immobiliser, but as a result of Mitsubishi having to convert the i to UK spec on the cheap, deactivating the immobiliser has to be done manually by slotting a transponder unit against a sensor in the dash.
