The Twingo will be the last Renault of the A-segment
- Following the release of its 2021-2025 Plan, Renault has announced that its rear-engine 5-door A-segment sedan, the Twingo, will not be replaced by a model using this architecture. It would be replaced in 2025 by a battery electric (BEV) B-segment sedan, based on the R5 concept presented last month.
- The carmaker announced that as the Daimler group having terminated the agreement between Renault and Smart on small A-segment cars, it was no longer possible to take charge of the design and production of a new small sedan with a combustion engine, which will not exceed 100,000 sales per year.
- As for Peugeot and Citroën, which will replace their small cars 108 and C1 with small battery electric vehicles, Renault has decided to replace the Twingo with a small BEV based on the CMF-EV platform already unveiled during the presentation of the future Renault Mégane electrics and Nissan Ariya and modified for B-segment cars.
- The future BEV R5 will therefore be included in the Renault range in 2025, at the entry level of the brand's electric cars range, located below the Zoé(B-segment B) and e-Mégane(C-segment). It will of course be produced in the Douai plant dedicated to the production of the brand's electric cars. Other models will be added to this plant, such as the future BEV-SUV replacing the Scenic and the future BEV-SUV from Alpine. Renault could produce up to 200,000 electric cars in this plant in 2025, even if Inovev only forecasts around 130,000 units by this time.
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