► Renault Twingo to be revealed on 6 Nov
► Will come to UK in right-hand drive
► UK pre-orders open now for ‘under £20,000’
These teasers are our best look yet at the production version of the new Renault Twingo, which is confirmed for reveal on 6 November 2025.
The new city car, which Renault says will go on sale in the UK for ‘under £20,000,’ will – happily – look almost exactly like the concept version teased some time ago. From the teaser images that we’ve brightened up, you can see that many of the concept’s details have been carried over wholesale, or at least only lightly altered. Naturally, the wheels are a smaller size than the concept’s giant rims, and the retro bonnet ‘vents’ that used to show charging status have since been replaced with more conventional ones.
To start building up the hype and the orders, Renault is treating the new Twingo a little like a video game. It’s announced a £100 ‘R-Pass’ that allows you to jump ahead in the order and production queue, securing your place early.
Earlier this year, it wasn’t a given that the new Twingo would be launched in right-hand drive at all. To keep costs down, it was considered that Renault would only develop left-hand drive models. Remember the original Twingo? That launched as a left-hooker only.
However, brand boss Fabrice Cambolive has now confirmed that it will arrive on our shores. ‘I’m pleased to confirm Renault Twingo will launch in the UK. I put all my attention on the challenge to launch Twingo in right-hand drive, because I believe a car under €20,000 equivalent has huge potential in the UK as well as Europe,’ he said. ‘Accessibility to EVs is critical for the future, and Twingo offers something new for Renault.’
The previous Renault CEO Luca de Meo first revealed the company’s ambitions for an innovative approach to the new Twingo electric car. Speaking at the 2024 Renault Group Financial Results Conference, he said Renault had ‘partnered with the best’ and claimed setting up the Shanghai Ampere China development centre ‘put Renault directly into the most vibrant development eco-system globally.’ Ampere is Renault’s specialist EV division.
Referring to the promised 10kW per 100km efficiency figure – that’s equivalent to 6 miles per kWh, which would be ‘best in class’ – de Meo said Renault had ‘set the conditions to make a small EV in Europe in a very, very competitive way.’
As part of this, he underlined the new Twingo’s ‘dramatically reduced complexity.’ According to de Meo: ‘In 2019 our cars had between 2200 and 2600 parts on average. The new Twingo will have around 750. That’s a reduction of 30 per cent compared to the Renault 5.’
How has this been made possible? ‘It’s actually a completely different way of designing the cars. We pushed for the systematic reuse of off-the-shelf parts. So before the Renaulution our carry-over never exceeded 50 per cent. Now we achieve up to 80 per cent. And the bottom line [for the new Twingo] is a price that will be below €20,000 without subsidies. That’s less than €100 per month for our clients.’
With prices now confirmed in the UK to start below £20k, it seems certain that the Twingo will become one of the cheapest EVs on sale. With a footprint 20 per cent smaller than the average European car, it’s also likely to be one of the best small electric cars, too.
‘In my opinion,’ said de Meo when the concept was first shown, ‘the car is going to be a gamechanger – like Twingo was 30 years ago… A strong, clever, inclusive counterproposal of the European industry to the challenges of sustainable mobility.’
The speed of the Twingo’s development is set to shake up existing manufacturing practices at Renault, resulting in a new standard that’s been labelled Renault Leap 100, as de Meo explains.
‘From now on that means that we will target to make all our cars in 100 weeks. That’s less than two years. Actually, the Twingo will be done in 21 months. I think we’ve just moved to Chinese speed, thanks especially to the people of Ampere.’
During the same conference, de Mao also announced there would be a new Dacia electric city car, which is highly likely to share plenty with the new Twingo. This is targeting a list price of under €18,000, equivalent to less than £16k. Hopefully the result will still be a dramatic improvement over the Dacia Spring, the firm’s current £15k electric car.
The new Renault Twingo interior was revealed for the first time at the 2025 Brussels motor show. There’s a flavour of the original Twingo’s cabin with clever storage and a host of cool detailing.
It’s a stripped-back, minimalist cockpit that looks remarkably production-ready; you can see the relationship with the Renault 4 and Renault 5, with whom it shares its EV hardware – the gearlever, stalks, switchgear and 10.1-inch touchscreen tech are familiar, but the door handles echo the Mk1 Twingo’s and there are pleasingly physical dials and buttons for frequently used controls such as heating and ventilation.
Stay tuned for the production version of the new 2026 Renault Twingo when it’s unveiled in full in early November.
Tim oversees the digital teams that bring you CAR magazine and Parkers, our car-buying sister website. A lifelong motoring journalist, he has worked at many of the UK's biggest car titles, including stints on Autocar, What Car? and MSN Cars at Microsoft. Over two decades he has built extensive experience reviewing cars, writing features, breaking news about future products and navigating the airports of the world.
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