As one of the original 1980s pocket rockets, the Renault 5 GT Turbo helped define the hot hatch class that we know and love. Think of it as a forefather to the Ford Fiesta ST and Renault Clio RS ...

but it could call on an illustrious performance hatch heritage - Renault had built a spectacular mid-engined turbo version of the first generation 5, and had also pioneered turbos in F1. The GT ...

Elan and 5 Turbo? Great garage But until then, how about the last Renault hot hatch with a tiny turbo? 5 GT Turbos are very seldom seen today, and what a sweet little thing this 25 year-old car ...

That car was, of course, the 5 – and in terms of its success, it certainly proved to be as super as anything Renault produced before – or pretty much since. The brand claimed the 5 could do it ...

The 2002 movie Ali G Indahouse opens with our shellsuited hero screeching through suburbia in a Renault 5 GT Turbo. His ride is slammed on oversized alloys, with a frowning ‘bad boy’ bonnet ...

A French pocket-rocket, the Renault 5 GT coupe turbo was built between 1986-1991; well worth it if you can find a good example, unmodified by boy-racers. Since the Eighties are undergoing such a ...

The upcoming Renault 5 Turbo 3E is an all-electric, retro-futuristic hot hatchback with a rear-wheel drive layout and two electric motors housed in the rear wheels. This thing looks like it could ...

It even has a spiritual successor to the original Renault 5 GT Turbo hot hatchback – the Alpine A290 featuring up to 220 horsepower. Alas, the parallel universes of vehicular CGI still think ...

The resulting car, the Renault 5 Turbo, and the Renault 5 GT Turbo which followed, became an icon of the hot hatch scene in the 1980s and 90s – and it’ll return in 2027, reimagined as an all ...

But now the French automaker is leaning into the retro theme even further with the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, a dramatic-looking and potent hot hatchback that pays tribute to the Renault 5 Turbo that ...