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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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