In case you’re unfamiliar, the Renault 5 was a small, front-engine ... 1976 R5 Alpine predated even the original Volkswagen Golf GTI by two months. Of course, the most famous of them was ...
GTI is one of the most well known hot hatch brands, but VW weren't necessarily the trailblazers in this category ...
VW produced its first Golf GTI in 1976 and many others followed – with subsequent genre highlights including the Renault Clio Williams, Ford Focus RS, Renault 5 GT Turbo and, arguably best of all, the ...