Christmas has come early for retro hot hatch fans, as Renault has confirmed it is bringing back the iconic 5 Turbo. The car will be based on the new electric Renault 5 E-Tech, but instead of that car’s front-wheel-drive,

Few things compliment each other as well as a homely Euro hatch and massive, unseemly, perhaps indecent box flares. The original Renault 5 Turbo was a cut-up and remixed supermini, a slow and not particularly memorable economy hatchback save for its somewhat infamous incarnation in the states as the Le Car.