Renault Twingo

The Twingo has been Renault’s smallest car for over three decades, but the name has covered three genuinely different vehicles rather than one that evolved. The original, launched in 1993, was a one-box front-engined hatchback with a single, unmatched trim level and a “smile” of a front end that Renault never quite repeated. Its 2014 successor kept the shape’s cues but moved the engine to the rear and drove the rear wheels (a layout it shared with its co-developed cousin, the Smart Fortwo) before the whole line was retired in 2024 as it could not be made to meet upcoming Euro 7 rules affordably.^[1] A fourth-generation Twingo, this time a battery-electric city car whose styling deliberately echoes the 1993 original, arrived in 2026.^[2] This catalogue covers the first, third and current generations; the Clio-based second generation is the one gap in an otherwise continuous lineage.