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Modified engine swapped Renault Twingo with throttle bodies: Driven!
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Jan 1, 2025
Yep, this Twingo is as awesome as it sounds! This #renault #twingo is a #hothatch with a serious twist. Boasting a Clio 1.6 engine, Omex ECU and Throttle bodies this has to be one of the most mental road going Twingos out there. And the best bit is, it drives SO well! This badboy is going to be a mainstay of the channel for 2025, so content will be thin on the ground until the roads get better. But with an hour free today, I couldn't help myself. Love this thing!
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oh and all the
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way off the
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limiter this thing so
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good I think we've teased you enough
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about this one this is a very modified
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engine swapped throttle bodied Renault
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twingo a I I don't even know what to say
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about
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it and this bad boy was magazine
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featured in French cars ages ago so
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let's go next door and talk you through
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that
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article performance
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French
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cars snort changed Cleo engine swap
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Yamaha throttle bodies 148 horsepower
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The Mentalist twingo delivers a snarling
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retro
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punch it doesn't get any better than
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that right let's tell you what the speck
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of this thing is because this will be so
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much better than me just doing it off
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the top of my head look at
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that it is absolutely rad hopefully
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there's a spec l here we go
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so it says it's a 2001 1.6 k4m Renault
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Cleo Engine with itg sock induction
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filters Yamaha yzfr1 throttle bodies on
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a custom bog Brothers TIG welded
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manifold elongated driver side engine
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mount to get it to fit omx 600
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Standalone ECU omx fuel setup wro 255
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pump autobar 2-in exhaust downpipe
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custommade exhaust system blah blah blah
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blah blah I Pro Street coilovers didn't
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even know you could get coilovers for a
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twingo that's sick um yeah clear 172
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front seat blah blah blah blah
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blah this
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car when you think of modified little
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French
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hatchbacks you don't think of a car that
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drives as well as the this twingo
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everything that has been done to this
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twingo has made it better and kept what
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makes it a twingo should we just go for
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a drive and tell you how cool it is I
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like the sound of
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that Paul's cleaning a van and I'm going
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to go and Abus his
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twingo it's so dinky I love it because
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it's an early twingo it's got all the
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blue Keys The Blue Door cards and
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everything like that
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fuel pump
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time
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yes I love this car it's amazing
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everything about it's
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amazing right
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seat belt on cuz I got in trouble for
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that in the Rena 16 video right let's go
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and see how trusting Paul is Paul's very
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very very precious about this twingo
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let's go and see if Paul is trusting
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enough to send me up and down the road
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in the twingo without him I don't think
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he will be he might be all right though
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he going to find out
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he obviously I drive a lot of Paul's
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cars cuz we go and pick them up and we
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just sort of like yeah I would trust him
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with any of my
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stuff I'm not sure how he feels about
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the twing go cuz he's real Precious
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about this
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thing he is cleaning the van
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though how trusting you
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feeling going to go and film The
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twingo he's so
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trusting love you
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bye right let's go and find out some
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twin Go stuff that will work went well
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didn't it
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oh right so the twingo obviously it's
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left-and drive it's got the 1600 Cleo
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engine in it throttle bodies omx and
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stuff the thing that I will say about
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this car this isn't a thrown together
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box this is a really well-built
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quality driving car like even over as we
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come out of the industrial estate here
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it's mega mega mega bumpy and every car
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rattles rattles its knackers off over
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there we out we're out not the
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twingo it's so cool driving a leftand
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drive
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car especially a cool little twingo
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we're not going to go massively far
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we're just going to go out for a couple
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of Miles give it a little burn show you
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show you what the twingo is all about
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man um we buy into quite a lot on the we
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on the website one of the things that we
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buy into quite a lot on this YouTube
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channel is the car ownership is about
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experience and how a car makes you feel
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and I've got to
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say this car makes you feel
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Wicked it's either just a very cool
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thing to cruise around in or it's an
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absolute riot to drive and this this
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does both like you can drive this
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sensibly fair enough it is a little bit
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noisy but you could just cruise around
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in this sensibly looking cool ads or you
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could have some proper fun on a B- road
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with it whatever you wanted to do this
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will do it so I I like leftand Drive I
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wouldn't say left hand drive is my
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preference by any way shape or form but
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it is cool to drive a left-hand drive
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car so far as well we've only been on
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the road for 2 or 3 minutes I've had
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multiple people flashing me and I've had
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two thumbs up already
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so if you want to be under the radar and
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attention isn't your thing don't engine
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swap a
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twingo so let's tell you a little bit
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more about the twingo twingo uh were
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only leftand drive they were sold in
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France but a lot of them did get
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imported into the UK and Renault dealers
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were buying these from French Renault
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dealers importing them registering them
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and and selling them that was a thing
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these are very very common still in
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France you see a lot of twing goes when
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we went on the Porsche 992a Reno 5 Turbo
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2 trip um we saw loads of them and
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that's when Paul was like I need to buy
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this there's a story about this car we
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keep mentioning Brian in these videos
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and that's because Brian is like the
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Kingpin of cool Rena Brian saw this car
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for what it was and the quality of what
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it was and it doesn't quite fit with the
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rest of his collection but when you're a
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Renault guy like you've got to own one
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of these and I think I think he quite
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likes a
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twingo I hate this roundabout they've
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changed it so we bought this off
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Brian when we went down to go and get it
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it was the worst experience of our lives
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there was a localized snowstorm within
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10 minutes of Brian's house um that came
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out of nowhere so we had to buy a
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trailer off him to get it back um and
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because the roads are salty and gritty
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and horrible hasn't been used very much
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because you don't want to ruin such a
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nice
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thing yeah this thing's rad love
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it it's
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definitely it's quite it's a completely
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unique Car the reason this is unique is
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because it's an engine swapped car
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that's better than when they were new
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this has not been compromised in any way
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shape or form it's just everything a
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twingo should have been if they made
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like a twingo sport like a twingo
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[Music]
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RS I love
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it everything
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works it's so solid to drive like it's
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so tight and up together and it feels
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great you can Cruise along in speed at
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this as well like no dramas this will
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this will cruise at whatever speed you
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want without any
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problems it's got this really cool
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little steering wheel binnacle up there
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with a rev counter oil pressure water
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temperature and stuff the fuel pump's
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quieten down now which is
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[Music]
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nice should we wing it around this
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roundabout and open it
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[Music]
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up gave a few little burbles
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[Music]
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there let's go all all the way
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around let's get a bit of a gap right do
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you want to hear what a engine swap
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throttle bodied twingo sounds like
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go
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oh and that all the
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way off the
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limiter this thing's so good
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oh if that doesn't put a smile on your
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face there's something wrong with
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you it's not quick it's not like you're
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not going to get in this and be like oh
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my God it's not the fastest car in the
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world but it's
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just it feels so wrong but so good all
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at the same time yes yes yes yes what a
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great little
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car I wish more cars were like this like
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like more modified cars I wish more
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modified cars were like this you could
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daily drive this you'd probably need
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some earplugs for the fuel pump um but
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you could daily drive this and this will
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be daily driven in the summer this is
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getting driven all the time once you've
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been I don't know like how many people
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watching this have driven left-hand
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drive cars in the UK once you've been
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driving a left-hand drive car for like
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10 minutes it just becomes natural you
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get like you get your road position
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right and you're not like hovering all
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over in the middle of the road and
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stuff there's someone behind us in a
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like a corser SRI I think who's trying
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to go me into a race I'm not sure I'm
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not sure if I'm down for that am I yeah
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it left him for
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[Laughter]
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Dead He's flashing his lights and giving
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us a thumbs
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up oh
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what a time to be
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alive you ain't never seen another
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twingo with a 1600 throttle bodied
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engine in
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it Paul's cleaning his
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van Paul cleaning his van and I'm out
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abusing his pride and joy I don't think
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that was massively abusive to be
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honest it's all right Paul's going to be
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able to watch it back and see what I've
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done with his
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baby
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oh right that car so that car this car
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this car is so cool I love it more twing
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go more people need to be into twing go
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not like boring twing go fun twing go
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like
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this let's put the man himself on the
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spot and ask
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Paul why a
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twingo why did you buy a twingo because
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they're awesome there you go you heard
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it from the man
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himself if you watch this video and you
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also think that twing goes are awesome I
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cannot recommend that you go and buy a
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twingo and try and make it as good as
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that one they are
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we can't do any content on the twingo
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cuz it's just a good working car isn't
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it there's nothing wrong with it how how
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are we meant to do content we could walk
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driv content driving content okayer of
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the drive the experience of the I said
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that all about Driving Experience right
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I hope you enjoyed this and that will
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cheer up your afternoon we've got loads
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of work to do and uh I've got a citan BX
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to get ready cuz someone wants to buy
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that stay tuned for more twin go driving
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