Renault isn’t afraid to play the historical past card and resurrect iconic designs from its previous, and few of the automaker’s choices are as well-known all over the world because the 5, recognized within the US because the Renault LeCar. The French automaker has now determined to revive the R5 title, in addition to a few of its most necessary design cues, and use them on its essential new electrical metropolis automobile.

We’ve seen the Renault 5 Prototype a number of instances up shut and regardless that it seems to be fairly completely different, it truly has a little bit of Mini about it in its proportions. It definitely seems to be like a sporty and virtually premium providing, which is the place Renault could select to place this mannequin, since it can produce other cheaper electrical metropolis automobiles on provide.

And regardless that the car within the photograph gallery seems to be nothing just like the 5 design examine but (as a result of it’s sporting a modified Clio hatchback physique), it’s an early take a look at mule for the brand new EV. Renault has added flared wheel arches to accommodate the broader monitor and the wheelbase can also be barely completely different to the Clio’s too.

The automaker nonetheless has time to develop the mannequin since it’s not anticipated to reach earlier than 2024, when it will not truly exchange the present Zoe mannequin, and it more than likely received’t be Renault’s smallest electrical providing both. Rumors counsel {that a} sizzling Alpine model of the Renault 5 is deliberate with 215 horsepower, though nonetheless only a single motor driving the entrance wheels, like the usual automobile.

The brand new R5 will trip on the CMF-EV structure, a modular platform specifically designed for EVs unveiled in 2020. It is going to be utilized in a complete vary of fashions from sporty sedans to SUVs, or something in between, which is the class the brand new Renault Megane Electrical falls into, the primary manufacturing car to make use of this new platform.