To nobody’s great surprise, the other day the Renault 5 and Alpine A290 jointly won the 2025 Car of the Year award (the original and still the best of the big international car awards thingies).

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 ...

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 ...

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

While the A290 still looks very much like the Renault 5 ... an Alpine, not a Renault. The A290 is 60mm wider than the R5, with more aggressive bumpers and square DRLs designed to look like rally ...

Discover the full review of the 2024 Renault Scenic E-Tech electric 87kWh on CompleteCar.ie, featuring performance, ...

The Alpine A290 hot hatchback is the ... There’s a nod to its performance focus with rally-inspired running lights, while the sculpted rear door design is a reference to the original Renault 5 Turbo.

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 ...

He said: "We all feel immensely proud to have taken the prestigious 'Car of the Year' award. Renault 5 makes electric vehicles desirable as well as inspiring an emotional response. If there’s ...

The Renault 5 E-Tech shows mainstream EVs can be affordable and desirable cars that can also be fun to look at and drive.

up to 220 hp in the case of the Alpine A290, the electric hot hatch from Renault’s performance division. Two versions of the 5 E-Tech are available, one an entry-level model with a 120-hp ...