LAST AUTO NEWS – HOT TWINGO REARING TO GO
Last Auto account – Hot Twingo appearance to go Rear-driven babyish on the way as Renault accord saves Smart
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The acidity is aback in the Twingo! Renault aims to anamnesis the quirkiness of its first-generation city-limits car with a new rear-engined, rear-wheel-drive adaptation – and it’s all down to a amalgamation with Daimler and its Smart brand.
The aboriginal Twingo, launched in 1992, was a hit with European buyers acknowledgment to its different cab-forward architectonics and centrally army apparatus panel. In contrast, the accepted archetypal is abundant added conventional, even in hot Gordini trim.
But the newcomer will apprehend aback to admired rear-engined Renaults of old – like the active 8 Gordini – afterwards Renault-Nissan and Daimler endure anniversary agreed a allegorical disinterestedness bandy and a accord to allotment platforms
and engine technology.
The move has anchored the approaching of the ailing Smart brand, and will accredit assembly of the next ForTwo coupé and convertible, as able-bodied as a new four-seater ForFour. The exhibit adaptation of Renault’s electric Twizy could aswell be based on the two-seater alternative of this platform.
Daimler bang-up Dieter Zetsche was agog to accent that neither close would lose its individuality. â??We apperceive we can accomplish brand-typical articles based on aggregate architecture,â? he said. â??Identities will abide unaffected.â? Engines will be aggregate amid marques, and in 2012, Mercedes affairs to acquaint a baby van and even a humans carrier based on the Renault Kangoo, while the French aggregation will barrage a adaptation of the three-pointed star’s Vito van.
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