The Renault R5 Turbo is smoking hot, Revelations with Jason Cammisa, Ep. 01

The Renault 5 Turbo is hothatch fire: imagine if today s hothatches outaccelerated and outhandled today s midengine Ferraris. The R5 Turbo beat up on the contemporary Ferrari 308 as well as every other supercar by moving its turbocharged engine to the back, where rear seats used to be. Compare that to enthusiast cars like today s Volkswagen Golf R, which is merely a GTI+. VW, too, built a midengine, reardrive GTI, the W12650. But the Germans built one as a marketing exercise. The French put their Le Supercar into production and sold thousands of them to the lucky public. The photo car is a Renault R5 Turbo 2 Evolution, owned by BringaTrailer cofounder Randy Nonnenberg. The Evo added back in the aluminum bits lost in the switch from Turbo to Turbo 2, and had a bespoke engine with a fractionally larger displacement. For homologation purposes, of course because this was a WRC rally car. And what a car it was. Sub