Buy a Renault Laguna – get a free Renault Twizy EV

Renault in Spain is offering buyers of the Laguna or Espace a free Twizy EV as new car sales plummet in Spain.

Renault has solved the problem of slow selling cars in the UK by simply no longer offering them. Which means the UK no longer gets the Wind Roadster, the Espace, the Modus, the Kangoo and even  the Laguna.

But in Spain it’s different, so Renault dealers on the Iberian Peninsula are stuck with having to sell big mainstream cars no one actually wants, plus they have Renault’s obsession with producing daft EVs to contend with too. So they’ve taken a leaf out of the local Supermercado’s ‘book of selling sticky goods’ and launched a BOGOF deal.

Which means that if, for example, you decide you’d like a nice Laguna Estate for €21k those nice people at Renault will throw in a Twizy EV for free – effectively a discount of something around 33 per cent.

Of course, you have to bear in mind that Spain’s economy is in the toilet, unemployment is almost 25 per cent and new car sales are at the lowest level this millennium, and the impetus to move product at almost any price is obvious, but it does seem a  bit desperate.

Still, if Renault introduce it in the UK we’re sure it will help them shift the Twizy EV. Because at £7k for an electric bike plus another £45 a month for the batteries, it’s about the only way the Twizy is going to shift.