What do you get if you cross a smart car with a Red Bull tin? The world’s only stretched smart, the Carbonyte Smaaart.

Carbonyte UK, creator of the world’s first Ferrari ‘limousine’, took a smart Fortwo and stretched its chassis by 2700mm, to create a vehicle measuring 5100mm. Despite growing to over twice its normal 2695mm length, the Smaaart’s new lightweight alloy chassis allows the vehicle to be powered by its original 600cc engine and still comfortably reach speeds of 128km/h. In all, the build process took 300 man hours over four weeks from the initial chassis cut to the final paintwork.

The prototype Smaaart has been designed as a promotional vehicle, featuring a 20:1 scale fibre-glass replica soft drinks can, complete with ring-pull, which serves as van-like storage space for promotional items. But Carbonyte is also looking to take the Smaaart into the funeral industry by using the latest electric technology to produce an "individual yet environmentally-friendly hearse".

“We think the Smaaart will make a great promotional vehicle — combining head-turning looks with the practicality of a van. We’ve already had incredible reactions on the road — the vehicle’s almost stopped traffic, in fact the same reaction we had with the stretched Ferrari,” said Carbonyte MD and ex-McLaren man Chris Wright.