Renault Twingo: Can Renaultsport breathe some hot hatch magic into the Twingo

摘要

The world is in difficult times, so it's no bad thing to be reminded that the low-cost, low-carbon future that is imposing itself upon us it not without upsides. Gars will surely become smaller and lighter, but far from this precluding the provision of fun in what we drive, it seems likely that we'll end up enjoying ourselves rather more. If it turns out that this Renaultsport Twingo 133 is in the vanguard of a new breed of small performance cars (along with the likes of the Fiat 500 Abarth), you'll not hear us complaining. Bloated kerb weights mean much of the magic conjured by, say, Peugeot's 205 GTi is a dim and distant memory when you drive today's hot hatches, But Renault is convinced that the Twingo is the car to bring it back, and given that it's the progeny of the same minds that created the Cho 197 and Megane R26R, two of our favourite sporting cars of any description, there's no questioning its pedigree.