There’s a lot to unload here, starting with the return of the Renault 5. An electric hot hatch based on the rally racing icon of the 1980s sounds pretty slick, in my personal opinion.

Renault wants to build a 500-horsepower rear-wheel drive two-door hatchback. Called the 5 Turbo 3E, it's an electric nod to the rally-bred R5 Turbo of the 1980s. It has two electric motors housed ...

PETROLHEADS are thrilled to spot this legendary 80s rally car on the market for a five-figure sum. With iconic tinted windows ...

The Renault R5 Turbo, a mid-engine rally homologation special based on a front-wheel drive hatchback, is not a subtle car to begin with. It might be even less subtle with an unusual engine in its ...

There was still work to be done – the suspension, which had come from the Group 2 Renault 5 Alpine rally car and the Alpine A310, needed to be fine-tuned, more weight had to be lost (aluminium ...

In case you’re unfamiliar, the Renault 5 was a small, front-engine ... A silver 6×6 Alpine even took part in the Paris-Dakar Rally. (It didn’t finish, but it did participate, per Hagerty.) ...

Tarmac ace Jean Ragnotti took the competition car to three Monte Carlo Rally victories ... impact too, with Renault capitalising on the nostalgia with the revival of the 5 in all-electric forms ...

As a seedling for some of the most loved and least sane hot hatches ever made, the original Renault 5 was prolific. There was ...

compared to 8.0 seconds for the standard Renault 5, and – as you can see from these official images – a pumped-up bodywork oozing with retro rally car cool. There’s a chunky front bumper ...

Based on the regrettably watered-down Clio RS Turbo EDC, the rally-spec R3T packs a 1.6-liter turbo four mated to a Sadev six-speed sequentail gearbox. It's also got Sachs shocks, PFC brakes and ...

The Renault 5 isn’t the first car from a bygone era to make a comeback, but we reckon it could prove just as successful as other efforts (including the reimagined Fiat 500 and Mini). Indeed ...