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