Where each one leads

Nissan Pixo

• Against cars of the same age, the Nissan Pixo comes out better at its first MOT test (passes 7% more often than average) than the Renault Twingo (passes 7% less often than average).

Renault Twingo

• Fewer Renault Twingo cars in the Netherlands carry an illogical odometer record (3.1% against 3.6%).

Only measures that do not depend on how many cars were sold: pass and failure rates against cars of the same age, ratings, fuel use and CO₂. How we compare

At a glance

	Nissan Pixo	Renault Twingo
New cars registered in Europe	60,043 (2010–2019)	1,139,855 (2010–2022)
Licensed in the United Kingdom	10,283	22,424
On the road in the Netherlands	11,612	105,813
In traffic in Finland	—	1,320

EEA new-car registrations (CC BY 4.0) · DVLA licensed vehicles (OGL v3.0) · RDW (CC0) · Traficom (CC BY 4.0) · generations: Wikidata (CC0).

Reliability and problems

	Nissan Pixo	Renault Twingo
UK MOT first-time pass rate	66%	64%
… against cars of the same age	+7%	−7%
Illogical odometer records (NL)	3.6%	3.1%

Complaint, recall and bulletin counts grow with the number of cars sold and are not adjusted for it. UK MOT: DVSA anonymised MOT results (OGL v3.0); New York: DMV inspections; complaints, recalls, bulletins and investigations: NHTSA (public domain); odometer: RDW (CC0).

Fuel, emissions and price

	Nissan Pixo	Renault Twingo
Real-world use in Europe, petrol	—	6.2 l/100 km
Official CO₂ of new cars in Europe	—	44 g/km
Average power of new cars in Europe	50 kW (67 hp)	44 kW (59 hp)
Average mass in running order	930 kg	1,125 kg
Dutch list price when new (median)	€10,072	€12,595
Average odometer in Finland	—	137,000 km

Canada: NRCan Fuel Consumption Ratings, most frugal version of the latest year (OGL Canada). Europe: EEA monitoring of new-car CO₂ and on-board fuel meters (OBFCM), CC BY 4.0. Price: RDW catalogue price (CC0). Finland: Traficom (CC BY 4.0).