With Tina on the sidewalk Renault Twingo GT
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With Tina on the sidewalk Renault Twingo GT

Even after the first kilometers on a rocket from the Renault Sport workshop, I wondered if the Category B exam would be enough at all, and if so, if A helps, maybe I should have a license to fly to the stratosphere and back. I will not say "machine" because that would be unfair.

With Tina on the sidewalk Renault Twingo GT




Uroš Modlič


That the Twingo GT is an old-fashioned racing car at heart (and by no means outwardly) is clear: there is something sympathetically dusty and race-authentic about the rear (turbo) drive. One hundred and ten "cavalrymen" doesn't sound like much, but they are all Sport-certified thoroughbred stallions who can quickly come into conflict with the law as the missile is quickly launched from the speed limit zone.

With Tina on the sidewalk Renault Twingo GT

“I just touched the gas,” I explained to the officer and handed him the documents. I don’t tell how I took her away, a decent girl keeps the details to herself, but I can say that the young policemen, without hesitation, strained their saliva over the machine curtains. orange allspice. I tell you, this is such a hot pepper that instantly ignites your body and heart. If it were not as expensive as saffron (from 14.090 EUR 17 and up), I am convinced that the color structure of traffic on Slovenian roads would change from orange to more favorable. Do you like stickers? I have them! Here, the Twingo GT has a whole bunch of them - on the roof, on the hood and on the sides - and they all create the illusion of speed. And in order not to accidentally forget that I get into a race car, and not into a tractor, branded door sills and a small racing leather racing steering wheel remind me of this. And black and silver XNUMX-inch wheels and a side air intake for effective cooling (which, I confess, I tried to open on the first day to refuel). And last but not least, the center chrome twin tailpipe. A real double pipe!

With Tina on the sidewalk Renault Twingo GT

That said, there's nothing sinister about the car - I put the chassis in a clean A, the grip on the road is better than my mother's, and the short gearbox lives up to the overused adjective dynamic that adorns the pamphlet. By all accounts, I should also be excited about the stratospheric infotainment system, but let me tell you, I don't like that devil - it seems to me that drivers look less and less at the road and send more and more messages while driving. And this is the word of a motorcyclist who does nothing on the highway except to make sure that the cars "circle away from themselves" from waist to waist.

text: Tina Torelli · photo: Uroš Modlič, Gašper Zupančič

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With Tina on the sidewalk Renault Twingo GT

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