A French man named Christian de Léotard did just that in 1979, building an R5 Turbo ... car and cost about 20,000 French francs when new. In case you’re unfamiliar, the Renault 5 was a small ...

so the new car, to be called simply the Renault 5 Turbo, was given the green light. Production began at the Alpine factory in May 1980, and, by temporarily sidelining production of the Alpine A310 ...

Credit to Renault: Turning a front-wheel-drive supermini into a mid-engined, rear-drive sports car can be no easy task, and remarkably the French firm has done it twice, first with the 5 Turbo in ...