This cute Renault Twingo RS marks the return of Gordini badge to the French car maker’s range. It comes with distinctive styling features and a number improvements over the regular RS models. Now Renault announced the price of this car in the UK market, where most of the customers for such vehicles live! It’ll cost €17,750.

Hit the jump for the list of standard and extra features of the Twingo Gordini RS…

Compared with the standard Twingo Renault Sport, Renault Twingo Gordini RS comes with:

- Malte Blue or Pearlescent Black metallic paint, with Gordini white stripes (over the bonnet, roof and hatch),
- gloss black front and rear bumper inserts,
- Glacier White foglamp surrounds, exterior mirror housings and rear lip spoiler, plus ‘Gordini Series’ badging on the sides,
- 17-inch diamond-effect aluminium alloy wheels with black inserts,
- Gordini-embossed blue and black stiched leather upholstery,
- blue door panel inserts,
- blue and black leather-trimmed steering wheel with two white stripes to indicate the
straight-ahead position,
- blue gear lever gaiter and Gordini-badged gear lever knob,
- numbered plaque in front of gear lever,
- white-rimmed blue rev-counter, with white and blue background,
- gloss black centre console,
- trimmed dashboard cowl with visible stitching,
- Gordini-badged carpet mats,
- automatic climate control,
- cruise control with speed limiter.

Renault Twingo Gordini RS’s extensive equipment specification builds on the existing performance/equipment package of Twingo Renault Sport:

- 1.6-litre, 133 horsepower engine,
- ‘Sport’ chassis,
- 80W radio-CD with MP3 playback, steering wheel-mounted fingertip remote control, separate display and jack socket,
- independent, sliding rear seats,
- Renault Sport front seats with additional lateral support,
- automatic headlamp and windscreen-wiper activation,
- extra-tinted rear glass,
- foglamps,
- Renault Sport kick plates
- fully-disconnectable ESP,
- boot capacity ranging from 285 to 959dm3 VDA.

Also available as options are:

- Cup chassis €450
- Radio-CD with MP3 playback, steering wheel-mounted fingertip remote control, and Bluetooth® and Plug & Music connectivity €200
- Curtain airbags €250
- Electric opening glass sunroof €590
- Without Gordini stripes (white stripes removed from bonnet, roof and hatch) No charge