There’s a lot to unload here, starting with the return of the Renault 5. An electric hot hatch based on the rally racing icon of the 1980s sounds pretty slick, in my personal opinion.

Renault wants to build a 500-horsepower rear-wheel drive two-door hatchback. Called the 5 Turbo 3E, it's an electric nod to the rally-bred R5 Turbo of the 1980s. It has two electric motors housed ...

The Renault 5 is an electric supermini ... the Gordini version and the wheel-arches to the mad-arse mid-engined 5 Turbo rally car. The very first R5 had a bonnet vent. Here it's not a vent ...

Tarmac ace Jean Ragnotti took the competition car to three Monte Carlo Rally victories ... impact too, with Renault capitalising on the nostalgia with the revival of the 5 in all-electric forms ...

compared to 8.0 seconds for the standard Renault 5, and – as you can see from these official images – a pumped-up bodywork oozing with retro rally car cool. There’s a chunky front bumper ...

Tarmac ace Jean Ragnotti took the competition car to three Monte Carlo Rally victories ... impact too, with Renault capitalising on the nostalgia with the revival of the 5 in all-electric forms ...