The Rally Renault That Won Hearts, but not Races 

Correction: at 8:33 I say Walter Röhrl won the 1982 driver's championship for Audi. This is incorrect, he won driving an Opel Ascona 400. (extra annoying for me given I have talked about Röhrl winning for Opel in other videos...)

You could really say, it won fair and "square"

The R5 Maxi is probably my favorite looking hatch ever made, great video!

In 2005, Renault F1 team made an event with some other cars doing a quick lap in Sultanahmet Istanbul because of the first F1 race in Turkey.. One of the cars were Renault 5 Maxi Turbo in blue Philips livery. The way she sound was so loud and wild. Today I still remember the feeling that sound gave me in that day. Such a nice rally machine. Thanks for the video.

World's fastest hippo.

I own one, a nightmare to own but brilliant when it goes right

From the base model to the Mid Engine Rally Monsters the original R5 was a Masterpiece ❤️

Just the fact they threw an engine in the back of a tiny hatch already makes this car a legend in my eyes.

If only Bumblebee transformed into a R5 and raced in rally 😭🔥🔥🔥

I love how the evolution of these videos since the beginning has made this one of my favorite car channels keep up the amazing work and continue growing this channel

There's also an interesting fact: The car also won the Superproduction class in the 1987 French Supertouring Championship, driven by Érik Comas.

It's so much more than just a car ♥️

Fantastic video.Thanks so much. From memory a local privateer R5 won the 1986 Portuguese Rally too after most of the works teams pulled out after the deadly RS200 crash there. Ironically I remember that R5 was later destroyed in another accident. Good footage by the way.

Man gotta love french rally cars R5, 205, C4, Xsara, Saxo, Dakar/Pikes Peak 405

The good old days where you could finish 13th in a wrc manufacturer championship 😢

Another excellent production and subject matter, nice work man 👌

What an awesome video to wake up to. I love your channel. Great style and narration.

You are doing some fantastic work and your channel is very interesting. Keep going!

What a fantastic video and awesome work! When I watch your videos I always learn new stuff and gather ideas for my video projects! You're such an inspiration. Keep it up!

Always loved the Renault 5- Amazing video!❤️

Another great documentary. Thank you. ❤

Always love when baby Bono tells me rally stories

you're a great youtuber, tiff needell vibes, keep it up brutha.

Informative; thank you!

Nice! Thanks for covering some of the french legends in your videos! If you get a chance maybe you can talk to us of the citroen ZX rallye-raid one of those days? These were the hot things on the Dakar rallye raid when I was a kid!

8:29 that sick sideway...😮😮😮😮

I am a Renault 5 Maxi Turbo addict!!! Thankyou for your vídeo. From Portugal.

Nice video!

stunning archive footage.

Great work sir thanks for another fantastic informative piece respect 🙏 I love this car and your content about automotive history, renault has a fantastic rich history in motorsport from rally to f1 😊 renault knows how to make savage hot hatches, keep up the great content respect 🙏 🫡

Love this. There is a Renault dealership I see everyday and it has a Turbo 2 roadcar for display and I look at it always. Very cool and beautiful

Thanks! 👍💪✌

My family had Renault 5, it was forest green with that umbrella gear stick.

An AWD R5 Maxi Turbo would have dominated WRC, though it remains a iconic pocket hatch rocket dream. Great look back at its evolution!

I still remembered the Renault 5 Maxi Turbo from WRC 5 RALLY EVOLVED.

Always look forward to these videos, keep it up 🙌

I love the r5 turbo so much, one day I will have one

Really good video, love love the Maxi 5 Turbo, I do suggest though that you look into new BG music, as it's starting to get noticeably repetitive

Loved these I have a diecast 1:18 with the red and blue livery

Great summary of all of the challenges the engineers faced during development! Oftentimes we see legendary cars like this and without knowing the backstory, assume the car was a smashing success out of the box. Driving in Group B would have been terrifying enough, but I can only imagine the extra layer of difficulty trying to manage something with such a short wheelbase on inadequate tires (tyres 😉) Keep up the good work!

The Production class version was a mad car too !

this car is so satisfying to tame in DR 2.0

Renault has many remembered cult cars wich sadly often go unnoticed by many enthusiasts along with Alpine, like the Renault 8 Gordini. It's a shame that only one of the modern renaults actually represents the wild sporty side of the brand's past that also seems to have faded away from people's minds with the Clio V6, wich was a failure just like it's true predecesor the renault 5, because "the mother may be a clio but the father isn't and it shows". For some reason, French brands are destined to have done something cool back in the 60/70/80's and then just become another daily grocery getter printer or straight up dissapear. Although to be fair Alpine did resurrect for a bit to bring us the new A110, wich also seems to have flown a bit under the radar after the initial noise.

love the Le rally 😆

Ragnotti is my favourite Rally driver of all times, besides he never achived a WRC title. Is so amazing to see him dancing with his cars!!!

The Renault 5 is coming back as a new car along with an Alpine sports edition. 😅

You should have more subscribers dude.

Great narrative!!! great work, thanks man! You speak so clearly that i didnt need subtitles to understand you! Cheers from Argentina!

6:10 was a smooth one

Obviously this point has been made time and time again, but sweet niblets is it scary seeing old group B footage of the crowd right on the edge of the road, after a braking zone, on the outside of the corner. How serious injury and fatalities weren't MORE common I'll never know.

I dont think u mentioned the nickname coffin on wheels. The r5 turbo was and still is an icon. They could be tuned to be proper fast. But many died coz when u did screw up there was nothing to protect you. For us back than as Yong guys they where out of reach price wise just like a gti ect. But when one showed up at a street race u couldn't take it for granted.

I would love to see a video on the 205 T16

The Murray with The Jumbo Jetpack.

gotta love allpeen

Group B=Bold and Brave. Massive power and high speeds careening around almost striking on lookers. 10:20-10:30 "R5 Turbo didn't perform well in 1983". You don't say. I pretty sure the snow bank agrees.

Surprised how few videos there are for the Porsche 908 on RU-vid. Would love to see that one from you!

Hope you can do the Lancia Delta S4 and Consulier GTP some day.

So this is a random question, but what happened to the music that usually accompanies the entirety of the videos? It gave so much character and style to the presentation, ngl i did miss it in this one. video itself is very good still tho, just wondering

Bring back extreme wheel arches

I always wanted one, but know where I finally earn relatively good money they’ve became insanely expensive! 15 years ago you easily could find the lovely mid engined turbo version for 15k!

from an era batman was a police officer aaah, the good ol' times

Hey, le George! Bonjour, le George! Let's stuff le George in le locker.

Fun fact, the R5 GTT also ran in group N

It's said Ragnotti and his codriver (or other Renault crew) bet "how many parts were left" each stage's end, joking about its awful reliability. The car was mad fast on dry tarmac, but man, it was also said it left a trail of oil and broken leftover parts through the stage 🤣

More than just a typical French rally car. It's a box with a Warp Drive.

The next episode could be about Opel Calibra in DTM/ITC. :)

The Frenchies' boxy rally twingo mf

What music do you use?

ルノーサンクMaix turboサイコウ🎉❤👍👏😍

Ye, le Renult Turbo5 rally car

205 t16 next ?

Does anyone know what the monster of an engine is at 11.16?

My uncle used to own one of these. not the rally version of course.

First like 😁

French at it’s finest

Walter Röhl wasn't driving for audi in 1982. He was driving for Opel at the time. Michele Mouton (driving for audi) lost out on the championship due to a gearbox change going wrong (and her father dying right before the event). Tldr: Audi only won the constructors championship in 82.

Walter Röhrl won the Drivers Title in 1982 with Opel not Audi😅

Imsa Le car 🤓🤓🤓 1981

Imsa Le car brilliant deceptionin american race

Le car, more like le shit back in the states lmao

the R5 Alpine had 93, not 92 HP 😂

if you havent been on a r5 with 6 prople on the way back from a club... did you even have a youth?

Talbot ..not Talbow, they were Britsh not French lol

Please pronounce the manufacturer names properly

Can you do a video on the Espace F1? That was a bonkers car.

Very good video. But the Renault 5 was apparently just as trashy as I wanted it to be at the time, just because it was so hideously ugly... A car I was ashamed to look at... It's so unbelievably ugly even today to me. But a big thank you because I was obviously right when I said it was as ugly as it was bad.

Can we get the pegueot 206 ? 😇🫠