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Renault Twingo

Photo: Renault

Even more comfortable, it will also be better balanced, will enjoy better roadholding, improved stability, more capable power assisted steering, and longer-lasting brakes of higher performance. With its more elegant and refined appearance, both inside and outside, the New Twingo will make travelling more enjoyable. Often copied, but never equalled, the Twingo now raises still higher the standards which its competitors will have to face. 

From the moment of its launch, the Twingo proved a great success and has become more than ever the benchmark among small city cars. In the first five months of the year 2000, it was the third best-selling model in France in the small car segment, taking a 9.2% share, behind its sister model the Clio (21.2%) and the Peugeot 206 (20.6%). Its real competitors, such as the Ford Ka, the Daewoo Matiz, the Fiat Seicento, the Volkswagen Lupo and the Seat Arosa, were situated respectively in 12th, 16th, 17th, 18^th and 22nd position with market segment shares of 1.3%, 0.6%, 0.5%, 0.4% and 0.3%. This domination was just as strong in Europe as a whole, with the Twingo taking 3.5% and 10th place in the segment, ahead of the Fiat Seicento (11th place), the Ford Ka (12th place), the Daewoo Matiz (16th place), the Volkswagen Lupo (18th place) and the Seat Arosa (22nd place). 

By virtue of its redesigned chassis, its improved braking system and its more comprehensive equipment list, the New Twingo is seeking to achieve three objectives: 

• improved active and passive safety,
• greater driving pleasure,
• to create a new "aesthetic" reaction, principally through the use of new colours
• and trim materials.

(July 17, 2000)