In a world full of Lancia Stratoses and Audi Quattros, Renault knew that its diminutive 5 (or R5, in common parlance) hatchback would not be the basis of a competitive World Rally Championship entry.

Of course, the most famous of them was the R5 Turbo, which radically moved a turbocharged engine behind the driver and was rear-wheel drive. Success in WRC and an extremely wide pair of rear ...

The R5 will be run by customer teams as opposed to a factory works outfit, with VW having last entered the WRC back in 2016. At the launch, Volkswagen Motorsport Director Sven Smeets was keen ...

and offers a more affordable way into the new R5 class of the WRC - which will replace the old S200 and Regional Rally Cars. evo's resident rally enthusiast Henry Catchpole took a drive in the ...

Introduced back in 2009, the Fabia S2000 also served as the basis for Volkswagen's dominant WRC program, whose success the new Fabia R5 will be tasked with matching in the lower classes.

With new stops in Spain, Paraguay and Saudi Arabia, the FIA World Rally Championship is set to have race fans on the edge of their seats in 2025. Belgian Thierry Neuville is back in his Hyundai ...