And where some comfy but confined rear seats once sat, an engine took their place. It was effectively the same 1.4-litre turbocharged unit from the earlier Renault 5 Alpine Turbo, but in its new ...

A French man named Christian de Léotard did just that in 1979, building an R5 Turbo with six wheels ... In case you’re unfamiliar, the Renault 5 was a small, front-engine, front-drive hatchback ...

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

The answer came from Bertone’s Marc Deschamps, who penned a radically reworked version of the Renault 5 supermini, with the engine mounted ... simply the Renault 5 Turbo, was given the green ...