What do you think of “cosmetic” special editions?

The Renault Twingo Gordini Renaultsport

Renault has revealed a new Twingo special edition – the Twingo Gordini Renaultsport.

Despite a new leather interior, colour scheme and a host of extras such as climate control and automatic headlights, it doesn’t get a power boost.

Superminis usually get the cosmetic special edition treatment, and we’ve seen the Mazda 2 Tamura, Citroen C4 “by Loeb” and Ford Fiesta Titanium Individual get minor styling upgrades in the past year.

Others include the BMW M3 Edition with 10mm lower ride height, a new colour scheme and interior.

Sure, they all look great. But for the extra money I’d rather have an engine remap, induction kit and other tuning upgrades to get more power beneath the bonnet.

One advantage of special editions however is the depreciation factor – they may hold their value more than standard models, especially if they’re in a limited production run.

Are badges and extras enough to sway buyers? Or do you think special editions should always include a power upgrade?

Leave your thoughts in the comments box below.

Dominic Sacco

2 Comments

Filed under 2, BMW, Buying and selling, car, Cars, Citroen, Fiesta, M3, Mazda, Renault, Topics, Twingo

2 Responses to What do you think of “cosmetic” special editions?

  1. Hello hunnie, nice blog! I genuinely treasure this blog post.. I was wondering about this for a while now. This cleared a lot up for me! Do you have a rss feed that I can add?

  2. You definitely need to know that this is one of my fav blogs.

Have your say, leave a comment...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s