Smart Forfour Brabus statistics

• Licensed in Great Britain 124 −8.8% on a year earlier
• Declared SORN 100 Off the road, not taxed
• Still registered 72.5% Other Smart Forfour versions 21.3%
• Peak year 2008 284 licensed
• Share of Smart Forfours 0.9% of those licensed or SORN
• Declared off the road 44.6% of those still registered are SORN

How many Smart Forfour Brabuses are left in Great Britain?

There were 124 Smart Forfour Brabuses licensed in Great Britain at the end of June 2026, and a further 100 declared off the road (SORN). The licensed count is 56.3% lower than its peak of 284 in 2008.

How many Smart Forfour Brabuses have survived?

72.5% of the Smart Forfour Brabuses first registered since 2001 are still registered, licensed or SORN. For other versions of the Smart Forfour first registered in the same years, the figure is 21.3%, so Smart Forfour Brabuses are 3.4 times as likely to have survived.

Smart Forfour Brabus registrations over time

Registrations of Smart Forfour Brabuses for the first time in Great Britain peaked at 174 in 2006. In 2025, 0 were registered.

Smart Forfour Brabus engine sizes and fuel types

Of the 132 Smart Forfour Brabuses licensed in the UK at the end of 2025, 95.5% have an engine of 1,401cc to 1,500cc, and 4.5% have an engine of 801cc to 900cc.

United Kingdom figures from DfT table VEH0220 (licensed cars at the end of each year, SORN excluded), so they differ slightly from the Great Britain counts elsewhere on this page. This covers cars DVLA records under this version’s name only; the Smart Forfour page covers every version. How we use engine sizes.

Smart Forfour Brabus fuel economy and CO2

The Vehicle Certification Agency’s new car data lists the Smart Forfour Brabus from 2006. On the NEDC test (listings 2006), official combined fuel economy for its petrol versions ranges from 41.5 mpg, with CO2 of 159 g/km.

Source:VCA July 2000 to 15 September 2026 Updated 15 Sept 2026

• Official figures from laboratory type-approval tests. VCA says they may not be achieved in real-world driving, and should not be used to rank cars with similar figures.
• These are the VCA listings we could match to the Smart Forfour Brabus by name. The Smart Forfour page covers every version.
• Engine sizes are rounded to the nearest 0.1 litre. A version is one line in VCA’s data (description, gearbox, engine and fuel), counted once however many years it was listed. Matched from VCA’s model name “forfour”. How we use VCA’s figures.

Smart Forfour MOT reliability

In 2025, 71.7% of Smart Forfour MOT tests were passed first time, against 72.8% for all cars. Cars of the same ages pass 76.0% of the time, so the Smart Forfour does worse than average for its age, by 4.3 points.

DVSA's MOT results name the model, not the version, so these figures cover all Smart Forfours tested, the Brabus among them. For the full breakdown, including defects in detail and results year by year, see the Smart Forfour page.