Dear twings and twingorinas

>those left shitbox status long ago
See also various Peugeot GTi models and certain Renaults (5 GT Turbo, Clio Williams...)

indeed

Kinda sad that there wasn't an official hot version of the first Twingo.

75hp was the most it got but apparently it was already pushing the limits when the chassis became known to be really tailhappy, especially if people didn't care about their tires (which most do when they drive absolute bottom end cheap cars).

I guess they didn't dare to go higher like they do now with the RWD Twingo. Same case, they don't dare to make it too hot, fearing they get sued by enraged soccermoms whose sons went too fast.

Fun fact, that 75hp engine is commonly found with a turbo in many modern renaults.
That's right, the 1.2 TCe is an evolution of the Twingo's engine, and it makes up to 130hp from the factory.

I really wanna try to source one from a crashed Clio/Twingo II GT/Captur/Duster and put it in a first gen Twungi. Should bolt right up to pretty much everything in the later models (since it's the same engine block with different internals, head and manifold) and they don't even cost that much.

I hope this is true but then I wonder why no one has done this before. At least to my knowledge so far

It probably has... just in the Francosphere instead of the Anglosphere, so you haven't heard about it.

Because everyone usually goes for different swaps (F7R, 1.4T from 5GT Turbo, Clio RS 172 block) with more power (and usually because they already managed to source one of those for cheap and figured it'd be fun to put it into a Twingo).

...

I'm kinda curious if... you could take some scrap 4x4 Dacia (mostly Renault, right?), slap some parts from that onto a Twingo and see what fits.

...You know, for science

Been toying with this idea too. You'd probably have to cut and weld floor pans and fabricate a shitton.