Renault Clio V6. The new Renault 5 Turbo 3E is both delightfully similar to its wide-set ancestor, and very different. For one, the look is just right. Renault showed off a concept for a similar 5 ...

What do you do when a rear-mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive French hot hatch just isn’t quirky enough? You give it two extra wheels, that’s what. A French man named Christian de Léotard did just ...

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 ...

It's clear that the model had a strong impact too, with Renault capitalising ... first with the 5 Turbo in 1980, and then in the early 2000s with the Clio V6 with help from TWR.

Renault has confirmed it will build a new version of the 5 Turbo. Called the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, it will be an electric hatchback with two motors, rear-wheel-drive, carbon bodywork and 500 horsepower.

Automakers like Seat, Opel and Citroën (to name just a few) all offer hot hatches American buyers can only admire from afar. Few of them, however, can hold a candle to Renault.

Late last year, Renault confirmed its plans to build the outrageous Renault 5 Turbo 3E – a handbuilt, rear-wheel-drive electric hot hatchback with more than 500bhp and a six-figure price tag.

It's clear that the model had a strong impact too, with Renault capitalising ... first with the 5 Turbo in 1980, and then in the early 2000s with the Clio V6 with help from TWR.

The iconic Renault 5 Turbo will return as a high-powered electric ... The 5 Turbo’s spiritual successor was the Clio V6, which followed the same recipe of taking a sensible city car and turning ...