500hp Renault 5 Turbo EV hot-hatch confirmed for Australia 500hp Renault 5 Turbo EV hot-hatch confirmed for Australia

The fastest-accelerating and most likely most costly Renault production vehicle yet has been confirmed for Australia.

Renault’s 5 Turbo 3E electric sizzling-hatch change into published a fortnight ago as an electrified homage to the French trace’s accepted 5 Turbo and Turbo 2 mid-engined legends of the Eighties.

Published with one among the Renault 5 Turbo’s iconic rally liveries, the electric hyper-hatch aspects dual in-wheels motors  to invent 373kW (500hp) and a 0-100km/h quote of 3.5 seconds.

Renault Australia is inviting expressions of hobby on its homepage, even supposing whereas that web page says the 5 Turbo 3E is “coming soon” the vehicle doesn’t scramble into production till 2026.

Unlike the fresh Renault 5 EV on which it’s simplest loosely based entirely, the Turbo 3E will fair a carbon-composite body to assist tumble about a kilos.

A 2022 Turbo 5 idea weighed lower than 1500kg and incorporated waft modes, a handbook hydraulic handbrake, and waft modes. For comparison, the Cupra Born electric sizzling-hatch weighs virtually two tonnes.

The Turbo 3E, then again, will be vastly dearer than the circa-$60K Born. UK hypothesis is pointing to a designate that would per chance per chance exceed about $200,000.

A more inexpensive electric French sizzling-hatch would per chance per chance per chance soundless advance to Australia within the impact of the A290 from Renault’s performance trace Alpine (which races in F1).

The regular electric Renault 5 retro-impressed hatch stays unconfirmed for Australia.
“Securing the R5 Turbo is the first step of masses of products coming to Australia from Renault,” talked about a Renault Australia spokesperson. “As more data develops, we’ll tackle you suggested.”