Homologation Specials: 1980 Renault 5 Turbo
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- The creation of the Renault 5 Turbo is one of our favorite stories of automotive augmentation, at once unique and stereotypical; it’s another somewhat odd-looking French car, another rally icon with econobox heritage. But the “R5 Turbo” was also an iconoclastic machine that diverged from its humble origins to a degree that was arguably unmatched until the infamous Group B cars that arrived in the World Rally Championship (WRC) years later.
After winning its debut at the 1981 Rallye Monte-Carlo on the eve of that new era, the rear-wheel drive R5 Turbo went on to perform admirably against the onslaught of all-wheel drive cars in the mid 1980s-especially so on tarmac-heavy rally stages, but its origins are rooted in the 1970s, when the then freshly christened WRC was being handily commanded by the French manufacturer’s Italian rival. Renault’s answer to the dominant Lancia Stratos was to transform its perfectly fine but homely hatchback into a wide-bodied rally fighter.
Bertone was tasked with designing the bodywork, the monocoque was modified to hold a turbocharged engine where the groceries used to go in the car’s front-engine, front-wheel drive relative, lightweight alloys replaced much of the steel shell, and production of the road-going homologation versions was underway at the turn of the decade. More than 40 years later, the rally and road versions of the R5 Turbo are rightfully regarded as part of the rallying canon.
In this week’s film featuring a beautiful first model-year example, our host Sam Hancock pilots the wonderfully pugnacious little monster through the winding roads of Biella, Italy, talking about the car’s origins and its lasting impact.
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8:22
"Get ready for that nice bit of oversteer"
*Cuts to shot with full understeer*
LOL indeed. Lucky not to smash the barrier.
I like this video and I love these cars but I wish Petrolicious would go back to featuring cars AND the people who own them. The stories of the personal interaction owners had with their unique cars is what made this channel great.
Kinda hard to do so right now...
Pretty sure the new owner is just purging all the formerly paywalled content
I'm pretty sure these are just old videos that paying subscribers received.
@@chadderton I'll fight you
You mean like this: ua-cam.com/video/TclUfW4MYTI/v-deo.html
I remember these cars in yellow coming down the mountains in Sintra during the Portuguese Rally. Amazing days.
A special little car and filmed in exactly the right creative way. This kind of car is special now, can you imagine how people will want a ride in one in the future with a world full of electric vehicles.
I actually just had this conversation with my business partner. We were driving in his 911 and it hit me. Soon enough petrol cars will be limited and the demand will be insane.
@@ithinkweregoingtoneedabigg8525 indeed, people who have a decent collection of cars such as Harry's Garage will be even richer than they already are.
It would be outright illegal for them to ride in it, so no i don't see it.
@@Orcawhale1 I actually work in the cannabis industry. That being said when has anything being illegal ever stopped a demand?
@@ithinkweregoingtoneedabigg8525 How are you going to hide a gas powered car, if it's illegal to drive?
Engines make noise, electric does not.
The old Petrolicious isn't coming back, is it?
This channel now "just" became on of many car enthusiast channels, before, there was this certain aspect to it, hard to describe, but it was a cartain mix between documentary, art and a raw focus on the car/machine, alltogether, with the editing it became something special. Don't want to be disrespectful, just sharing my sentiment for the former format, it was magical at times.
Your numbers are wrong. They build 1678 Turbo and them 3284 Turbo 2. And Renault never call it Turbo 1.
I was just about to comment and ask from where they got those numbers. I know people mistake the production numbers of the Clio V6, but mistaking it with 1078 Turbo models and 2064 Turbo 2 models is a it much. Maybe you were thinking of the homoligated versions and including the Turbo 2 Maxi into the 600 Turbo models you speak of. But please correct this very bad mistake because it makes it look like you haven’t even done any serious research regarding this model.
I never really noticed the A pillar cover that runs to the rear before on these cars.
What a great machine, imagine the joy this brings you when driving this!
Oh been waiting for another retro upload
And this one doesn’t disappoint!
Those are the roads I use to pedal on regularly!!
that steering wheel not on upside down?
6:29 haha! those onlookers must be blind. Great car.
Great video as usual. But, recent releases from you seem to really downplay the sound of the car. More engine noise, please.
I was lucky enough to own a pearlecent white Turbo 2 in the late 90's early naughties.
Ex Peter Stringfellow and the absolute best car I've ever owned.
I should never have parted with it.
For those wanting to see one used in anger, Google Jean Ragnotti - he was the works driver for Renault and an absolute legend - he still gets invited to the Festival of Speed to show off the Maxi 5 Turbo - Renaults answer to Group B with 350hp.....
Fantastic!
Amazing Machine 😍
I just love this car! Masterpiece!
1 thing really pissed me off in this video and its that we only got 2 shots of the back end of the car. 1 was a long shot of it and wasnt clear enough and the second was just a zoom on the back lights side.
Love it!
Around 200HP
Wide body
Low center of gravity
Light weight hatchback
Great handling
Manual Tranny
Curvy roads
This, is where the real fun begins.
Japanese people call this Touge racing. Every car guy should do this in their life.
HP dosent matter here.
To clarify numbers there were a total of 1,820 Turbo 1 and 3,167 Turbo 2's produced during its 6 year production span.
Spectacular car, great power
An old school friend had one he eventually sold it to a fighter pilot one of these and a sport quattro in my dream garage .
Et un pouce bleu pour notre petite bombinette française des années 80.
Great little car, one of a kind 😉
One of the best dashboards.. interior is super on mk 1
The centreline at the bottom of the steering wheel and being upside down ruins this car for me 😂
I was just about to comment the same!
What a beast, the Best group b road car !
Group 4, not B
I wouldn't change 5 of these for a Lancia 037 sorry...
@@franciscocabrerabrito5945 or a 959
@@vnitto exactly!! Hahah you normally don't associate the Porsche brand with rallying...missed that brilliant one!
@@vnitto 959 (and Ferrari 288GTO) was for Group B Racing, not rally.
Perfect "The Toaster"!
I get the feeling Bertone could style a garbage truck and I'd not so much want one as desire one in a very deep way.
When I saw the car in a Bond film I fell in love.
Wow just Wow
This car is a reference when it comes to the concept of a rally sports car. It's a pity that the prohibition of the Group B regulations annihilated this format of converted hachtback vehicles with the rear central engine, such as the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 or the Lancia Delta S4 later.
On the one hand with two seats, without a trunk and with a very peculiar design (with the additional cost that it would imply for the brands) it would have had little commercial success, on the other hand they would have been a real market for racing cars (customer-races), as later were the Gr. N's later were in the that the competition Gr. A were based (Lancia Delta Integrale, Ford Sierra and Escort Cosworth or the ultra sports Mitsubishi Lancer or Subaru Impreza in their different evolutions) came out for me much more boring than what these widened mid-motor vehicles would have been if they had had continuity.
Still waiting on a full Lancer Evolution video.
The alpine also lost to the lancia fulvia 1.6HF. So lancia was already a champion winning the Italian Rally Championship every year from 1965 to 1973, and winning the WRC's predecessor, the International Championship For Manufacturers, in 1972.
That steering wheel is so close to his body!
Big man in little car.
Nice one Sam! However, Renault wasn’t trying to beat the Stratos - but the dominating Fiat 131 Abarth Rally (World Champion 1977,78 & 80).
But you’re correct the Quattro beat it to that.
elle est mythique cette voiture
Where is that tunnel at the end?? Great video!!
Galleria Rosazza, Oropa, Italy
Du lourd.
so fun in Gran Turismo...
you drive like my grandmother
😂
Old format please 🙏
🇮🇹🤝🇫🇷
Now Renault Clio V6? 😍
The car is nice....
We need more host like Sam Hancock.
Not true regarding your production numbers. Total production R5 Turbo ''1'' and 2 : 4857 units...( 1690 Turbo 1 and the rest Turbo 2 )
Lansia
Watch his Stratos Video, he wasn't even able to spell Lancia correctly one time. True car enthusiast, that guy.
#WHENTHEVIDEOGRAPHER #WANTSTOBETHESTAR #COUNTERINTUITIVE #TOTHESUBJECT
why you are yelling? couldn't watch it all
Why are you crying?
For those who liked the old type of videos: ua-cam.com/video/TclUfW4MYTI/v-deo.html
Ali G Approved
I guess Sam is here to stay 🙄. I'm assuming you guys won't be allowing the owners to tell their story anymore 🤔
Such a pity.
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8:20 looks more like understeer.... :/
You sound like Bear Grylls
So Sam suffers from weak forearms, coddled by modern PS ?!?!
Kids😎
you really need to get back to the actual owners and caretakers talking about their cars...
Too much silence
Getting famous off of comments day 314, so I can live the dream, live every day like it’s your last🤙
Too much hyperbole
I don't often comment, BUT bring back the 'OLD Petrolicious"... and this Renault 5 Turbo does NOT inspire me at all!
And 'Talking FAST' about it, does not make it fast ...
Taste is subjective. You're portraying it as objective. In other words you speak only for yourself and not for everybody.
You should really answer your emails, I'm a paying customer, what you are doing is just rude! If you don't respond I will have to get my money back.