Daimler has announced it will start selling the ForTwo in China from next year.
Daimler CEO, Dieter Zietsche has announced that the Smart brand will start exporting the small car to China from mid 2009 in an attempt to boost its global sales and turn its business into a profitable one. China will become the second large market outside Europe to get the ForTwo city car after the US where the car has been on sale since the beginning of the year.
The success met on the American market likely convinced the company’s executives to take the opportunity to launch the city car on the fast growing Chinese market where famous traffic jams and high pollution levels are favourable to smaller cars.
However, the path is far from being easy as Smart will meet a strong competition from local players such as Shuanghuan which sells a ForTwo’s carbon copy called Bubble.
