The #1 and #3 are here now, the potentially more vital #5 is still en route.

ENTREES have been served, but perhaps it’ll be the main course arriving later this year that’ll prove tastiest for Kiwis.

The Smart #1 and #3 (below) - that’s ‘hashtag one’ and ‘hashtag three’ - are premium-themed electric cars that have just come on sale here.

The models arrive, respectively, as a compact crossover and a more stylish, slightly longer and wider, crossover coupe.

In rear-wheel drive and 200kW Pro Plus and Premium trims, those models in turn cost $64,990 and $69,990 and $69,990 and $74,990. There are 315kW Brabus performance editions at $79,990 and $84,990 respectively.

While these get the brand back into New Zealand circulation, the type that might be expected to achieve volume is still to show.

That’s the #5 (above), its biggest model yet. It differentiates by being a sports utility with an off-road character.

Revealed in Australia, the hashtag Five comes with a 100kWh battery that is claimed to be good 548 kilometres of range and, thanks to an 800V electrical architecture, can charge from 10-80 percent in just 15 minutes.

Power figures haven’t yet been released, but there’s suggestion it will top out with a 475kW dual-motor model, again using the Brabus nameplate.

These cars are a world away from the original fare that came out in the late 1990s, when Smart was known for a tiny city car co-dveloped between Mercedes Benz and Swiss watchmaker Swatch.

The partnership was hidden in the name - Smart is an acronym for Swatch, Mercedes, and ART. That tie up is now defunct; today corporate ownership is shared between Mercedes-Benz and Chinese automaker Geely, with production moving to China and the products now entirely electric small SUVs.

Smart cars are represented by Armstrong Group and will be sold alongside Mercedes models in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.