Renault introduces Twingo Gordini Renaultsport
November 25, 2009 by George Skentzos
The Gordini namesake has returned to Renault with the official introduction of the Twingo Gordini Renaultsport.
This latest version of Renault’s pocket rocket features design cues long-associated with the Gordini world with a combination of French blue and white racing stripes.
The front and rear bumpers are enhanced by gloss black centre sections, while the fog lamp surrounds, exterior door mirror housings and rear tailgate spoiler are all picked out in a contrasting white finish.
The exterior treatment is rounded off by 17-inch alloy wheels with a polished face and a choice of the inner rim finished in either blue or black.
This theme is carried over to the interior with matching blue leather upholstery, blue and black leather steering wheel with twin stripes at the centre, blue gearlever gate and knob and a blue rev-counter with white surround.
The ‘Gordini Series’ badging either side refers back to the 1960’s heyday of the Gordini Cup in France when the qualifying heats of the different race meetings were known as séries.
Based on the same performance and equipment specification of the Renaultsport 133 version, the Gordini version boasts a ‘Sport’ chassis and feisty 99kW 1.6-litre petrol engine with a specially tuned exhaust note.
The Twingo Gordini Renaultsport will premiere at the Atelier Renault on the Champs-Elysées, in Paris in January next year with European sales to follow by March.
Tags: Renault Twingo, Renault Twingo Gordini Renaultsport
Woo!
From this pictures the car looks like a toy :)) However it must be very fun to drive such a light car …
This is the most exciting small car since the discontinued Fiesta XR4. If Renault Aus imports it and prices it right – no more $37k Clio please – it would be top of my wish list. A small fast car has a lot of appeal in a congested city, where I live.
It would be very cool, but would need to be close to 20k to sell. PS there’s brand new 197’s advertised for 30-32k drive away at the moment. Dealers must be feeling the pain.
Very cool.
Love the wheels.
Shame it doesn’t have the poke to go with its name. Floorpan/Chassis is from the Clio II and could comfortably cope with an extra 50 horses (a la RenaultSport Clio 172/182).
A pale imitation of the Gordini legend. Disappointing.
wow… that’s an alright looking car
Nice car, if it’s priced cheap i can see the potential for it to be a new p-platers car i know id try and snatch one if it was under 25k. Since it is Renault i assume that it would be over 30k making it seem quite unreasonable. I think they did a really good job on the exterior, any interior photo’s? (p.s can imagine a hot chick driving this car)
Looks great! But…. something about a 1.6 non turbo that leaves me wishing it was a different engine. The first thing that came to mind was Hyundai’s new fancy 4 pot diesel with its mountains (400nm?) of torque. I hope they put this engine into a small car and turn up the heat on a luke warm hot hatch market.