RENAULT TWINGO TWIN’RUN 2013

PRICE THEN/NOW: PRICELESS/EQUALLY PRICELESS, IF NO ONE’S SMASHED IT INTO ARMCO

TARGET AUDIENCE: Convincing Twingo buyers they were buying something spicier than a nan’s shopping cart.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? The Twin’Run was a one-off that never materialised into anything more than a concept. Its aim was to juice up customers for the arrival of the new, rear-engined, production Twingo – with which, company bosses promised, the Twin’Run would share its silhouette.

The concept did the job admirably: juice levels were high when potential Twingo customers discovered the Twin’Run was packing a 320bhp V6 midships. However, though the production Twingo did share its silhouette with the Twin’Run, it sadly did not share its speed, cornering ability or enormous engine wedged in the middle. Shame.