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).

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 rally theme continues with Stedi spotlights ... is coming – Spain's answer to the Alpine A290 spied The Renault 5-based Alpine A290 is the hot electric supermini of the moment, but Cupra's ...

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 ...

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.

While far from absolute confirmation that Alpine is now working on an uprated 3E, Cambolive emphasised how the Renault 5 and Alpine A290 had been considered as one model in the recent European Car ...

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 ...

The assessment was based on several different categories with the Renault 5 and Alpine A290 emerging first with 353 points overall. The 5 has shaken up the small EV segment ever since its arrival As ...