The Renault R5 Turbo May Be the Hottest ‘Hot Hatch’ Ever Made

Of all the “hot hatches” ever made, they don’t get much hotter—or more exciting—than the game-changing Renault R5 Turbo. Made from 1980 through 1984 (during the Dark Ages of U.S. safety and emissions regulations), the  diminutive French confection was loosely derived from the quotidian Renault 5, a model brought stateside from 1976 through 1983. The latter, rebranded as Renault’s Le Car, was one of the last gasps of French imports that came to America, brilliant in concept but…