Renault 5 Turbo

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The Renault 5 Turbo or R5 Turbo is a sports car which was produced by French manufacturer Renault from 1980 until 1984. It has a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout and was originally designed as a homologation special to compete in rallying. The R5 Turbo is based on the Renault 5, a front-wheel-drive mass-market supermini. Launched at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1980, the car was sold in a street-legal version, to comply with homologation minimum production numbers regulations, certifying that the R5 Turbo was to a sufficient extent indeed a "production car". Despite a hefty price-tag, market demand for the Renault 5 Turbos exceeded the required homologation production minimums, such that a total of 4,987 (1,820 Turbo 1 and 3,167 Turbo 2) R5 Turbos were manufactured during the six-year production run.

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