Someone rendered a Twingo Turbo 3E, and Renault UK started a petition for it
The widebody Twingo nobody asked for and everybody now wants
Renders live and die on whether the idea holds up for longer than a scroll, and this one does. Designer Khyzyl Saleem, better known as The Kyza, has taken the new electric Twingo and rebuilt it in the image of the Renault 5 Turbo 3E: bulging arches, scoops everywhere, wing on the back. It looks absolutely mega, and Renault UK apparently agrees.
What he actually did
The render keeps the Twingo's friendly retro proportions and then buries them under a full widebody kit, with extended fenders, a comprehensive aero package, multiple air scoops and an aggressive spoiler. Every one of those elements is lifted from the design language of the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, which is what makes it work. This is not random tuning, it is a coherent argument about what Renault could do with a car it already sells.
Who The Kyza is
Saleem built his following on Instagram, but he is no longer purely a digital designer. He has crossed into physical projects, most notably the TWR Supercat, a widebody restomod based on the Jaguar XJS. That track record is why this render carries more weight than the usual fan art: he has actually built things that started as pictures.
Renault's reaction
This is the part that lifted the story beyond the usual render churn. Renault UK's own account commented on the post with "Petition button for Kyza to build it >", which picked up 301 likes. A manufacturer publicly encouraging someone to build an unofficial version of its own car is not something that happens every week, even if it commits Renault to precisely nothing.
Will it happen
Realistically, no. Both Autoblog and Autofans rate the odds as effectively zero, and the reasoning is sound: the 5 Turbo 3E exists because the original 5 Turbo was a homologation rally car, and the Twingo has no such lineage to reach back to. Renault does have form with unlikely performance specials, from the Clio V6 to the Espace F1, but those were built on a story. This one would be built on a render.
AutoNext Take
The render is brilliant and it should not be built, which are not contradictory positions. The point of the new Twingo is that it makes electric motoring cheap and cheerful again, and a widebody Turbo version would collide head-on with the one thing that makes it interesting. Renault already has the 5 Turbo 3E for people who want theatre, and it does not need two.
What is worth noticing is how comfortable Renault has become playing this game in public. Reacting to fan work with a wink costs nothing, keeps the brand in the conversation, and quietly reminds everyone that Renault is the manufacturer people bother making renders of. That is a better position than most rivals are in.
