Back in June 2023, Renault announced that its Alpine brand was set to ... starting with the return of the Renault 5. An electric hot hatch based on the rally racing icon of the 1980s sounds ...

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

You’ll see the self-criticism, the design of new models, how the Alpine F1 team went ... the only way to see a Renault 5 were to either spectate a rally or to purchase a Renault “Le Car ...

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 ...

With six wheels, it was said to boast improved road-holding over the standard Renault 5 and ... A silver 6×6 Alpine even took part in the Paris-Dakar Rally. (It didn’t finish, but it did ...

The Alpine A290 plugged the performance gap the ordinary Renault 5 left for it, and while both are excellent in their own ways, the lack of a Renault 5 Turbo variant seemed a missed opportunity.

The Renault 5 E-Tech and Alpine A290 small electric vehicles will share the 2025 European Car of the Year title. For Renault, it’s the second year in the row it has been honored after the ...

Renault 5 E-Tech electric and Alpine A290 have been named Car of the Year 2025. The result was announced at a ceremony organised by the European Car of the Year jury at the Brussels Motor Show in ...

The Alpine A290, Alpine's take on the electric Renault 5, goes on sale with two powertrain options and five trim levels.

The new Renault 5 and its sibling Alpine A290 have won the Car of The Year 2025 award, succeeding the Scenic E-Tech 100%, the winner of 2024. The new Renault 5 electric and the Alpine A290 received ...