an all-electric hatchback that exists as an oddball tribute to the Renault 5 Turbo homologation car that existed so the automaker could compete in rallying over forty years ago. The original car ...

The forthcoming insanity that is the Renault R5 Turbo 3E may be an electric tribute to a rallying homologation legend, but it ...

Car fans will remember the two Renault 5 Turbos of the 1980s: wild, mid-engined rally specials that used turbocharging to give a small car incredible performance and wild body enhancements to give ...

At the end of last year Renault showed off its electric 5 Turbo 3E, a wild-looking prototype evocative of the old mid-engined 5 Turbo and Group B rally cars. Though it shares styling with the ...

But they took a completely different route. Instead, with the Renault 5 Turbo 3E, the brand is apparently presenting a genuine rally car including a carbon fiber plastic lightweight body and cage.

The Renault 5 Turbo 3E has styling echoes of the large ... so reminiscent of Renault’s works rally cars. In pure rally fashion, the Turbo 3E will get a vertical hydraulic handbrake for drifting.

The car will be available in a few specs paying tribute to classic Renault rally liveries, but buyers can also opt for their own custom look, too. Just as the exterior has been radically modified ...

The new Renault 5 Turbo 3E, with its 540bhp ... offer spectacular drift capabilities. The car should offer a range of 248 miles on a charge. Although if you drive it flat out on a track Renault ...

Though some details like the taillights are shared with the basic Renault 5 E-Tech ... 3E also has a rally-style vertical handbrake, which is a rare sight in any road-going car, let alone an ...

The car weighs 3,197 pounds (1,450 kilograms), including the 70-kilowatt-hour battery. That's roughly the same as the regular Renault 5 with a 52 ... its predecessor’s rally heritage—as ...