LAST AUTO NEWS – PUMA REBORN… AS NEW TWINGO CC!
Last Auto account – Puma reborn… as new Twingo CC! Renault to get attending of above Ford favourite, at a amount of about £14,000
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It’s not alone MINI that’s set to accompany the speedster set, as these latest pictures prove! Poised to hit the alley in 12 months’ time, the two-seat Renault Twingo CC is declared as a airy almsman to Ford’s abundant admired Puma, and is the French firm’s acknowledgment to the acknowledged Peugeot 207 CC.
Our spy shots aswell action the aboriginal glimpse of the new model’s able individual section hard-top, additional its affecting face. The car – which is codenamed X33 – measures 3.70 metres in breadth and will action drivers a best of two engines. Prices are set to activate at about £14,000.
At present, the plan sees entry-level models adapted with the 100bhp, 1.2-litre TCE assemblage acclimated in the Twingo GT. A flagship adaptation is aswell beneath development, which would use the 131bhp 1.6-litre engine from the Twingo RS. But there is still some ambiguity over the engine range, due to Renault’s ambition to cut the emissions of its absolute car line-up. Â
Top assumption accept already appear a eyes to actualize a new ambit of cars with boilerplate CO2 emissionsof alone 40g/km by 2012. To do this, the close says it will supplement a new bearing of electric cars with a ambit of ultra-efficient petrol and agent models.
It’s not yet bright if there will be an all-electric Twingo, but options getting discussed at the moment cover a 900cc three-cylinder petrol and an upmarket 1.6-litre 140bhp diesel. Regardless of the engines Renault chooses to fit, anti-lock brakes, able with foreground discs and rear drums, will be included as accepted and should accommodate fade-free endlessly power.
In befitting with Renault’s aim to be crowned Europe’s â??safest’ car company, ESP will be offered on all models. The Twingo CC will be congenital at the firm’s branch in Dieppe, alongside added models in the Renaultsport range.
But there is still no chat on whether all versions of the car will abrasion the firm’s achievement brand – or if administration intend to reservethe Renaultsport logo fortop-spec variants only.
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