Another benefit of having in-wheel electric motors is very little intrusion to the boot space. While the car’s exact luggage capacity hasn’t been confirmed, it looks plenty big enough for a couple of weekend bags, or helmets when you’re heading to the track.
Renault 5 Turbo 3E price and limited production
Production of the Renault 5 Turbo 3E will begin in the first half of 2027, and 1,980 examples will be built in total, as a nod to the year when the original Renault 5 Turbo was launched. Renault will build the car in-house, with a specialist team being selected in France to put each one together.
Each Turbo 3E will be numbered, and customers will be able to choose which number they get when placing their order, with reservations set to open in a few weeks.
The lucky individuals who are able to buy one will be able to choose from a variety of liveries and colour schemes, including a yellow, white and black design taken from the ‘Tour de Corse 1982’ rally car. But there are no bounds to what buyers can customise with the help of Renault’s team of designers, to ensure their Turbo 3E is truly unique.
As a result of all this, the starting price for the Renault 5 Turbo 3E will be well over £100,000, and the most heavily customised are likely to cost close to £200,000, meaning this small French hot hatch could cost about the same money as a Porsche 911 GT3 RS.
However, Gilles Vidal pointed out that for a lot of Turbo 3E buyers, that amount of money will be small change, especially when compared with the supercars and even hypercars already populating their garages.
“For those kinds of guys, it will be like me buying a cup of coffee, basically,” he said jokingly. But even without a confirmed price, after the concept model was unveiled, he told us, “many people called us, sent messages or posted on Instagram, reaching out to us unofficially to say ‘I want one! I want one! No matter the price.’”
