The uncertainty is over: Renault’s all-new electric Twingo WILL come to the UK.
The 2026 city car, which reinvents the utilitarian but charming nineties original for the electric age, will be engineered in right-hand drive. That was a privilege the first-generation car wasn’t granted, because Renault didn’t want to risk the engineering resources on an unproven concept.
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“The UK needs a right-hand-drive Twingo,” Renault brand CEO Fabrice Cambolive told Auto Express on the fringes of the Financial Times’ Future of the Car Summit. And it’s all down to a tempting consumer proposition, says Cambolive: “a very compact car but with an interior roominess which could be [from a bigger supermini] – at a really accessible price”.
While the second- and third-generation Twingos did make it to the UK, the 1992 original was so “out of the box”, reckons Cambolive, that Renault wouldn’t gamble on a concept with such “diversity”. Ironically Renault’s reduced complexity is helping fund the business case this time.
“Now Renault has a line-up with quite reduced diversity in terms of engines – either hybrid or pure BEV – so I think we can afford this additional diversity from Twingo, [to have] right-hand-drive to access strategic markets like UK. It will be very important for us.”
