Renault 5’s reinvention heralds return of the ‘green bullet’

The important question: can I win a hillclimb in the Renault 5?

Our car earns its racing wings at the waterlogged Watergate Bay Sprint It wasn't the most sensible or logical thing I've ever done, entering my Renault 5 long-termer in the Watergate Bay Sprint, a Cornish motorsport event on a closed public road between Newquay and Watergate Bay, about a month ago. I mean, how well could a brand-new, bog-standard baby EV be expected to do in a proper, Motorsport UK-approved competitive event against 70-odd conve…

Renault 5’s reinvention heralds return of the ‘green bullet’

FOUR decades after I was chauffeured around in my mother’s enthusiastically driven Renault 5, known affectionately as the “green bullet”, the French school run warrior is back.