Inside the 2025 Renault 5
It’s just as funky inside, too, with a nice big blocky ‘80s style binnacle housing both the 10-inch multimedia screen and the 10-inch driver’s display.
OpenR Link is the operating system, with Google integration for all but the base spec cars. As is the trend in 2024 and beyond, the Renault 5 gets a new Chat GPT-enhanced, voice-powered virtual assistant called ‘Reno’. “Hey Reno” allows you to schedule a charge – pre-conditioning helps, remember – among other commands. Apparently it can answer numerous questions, with 200 FAQs identified as priorities by Renault.
Of course, here is where things could have gone wrong for the Renault 5 ergonomically as it has for so many other cars of late as touch controls are forced upon us. Thankfully, some physical stuff remains. So yes, absolutely crucially, climate controls are handled via a row of buttons below the new infotainment screen.
There’s a new squirkle-style steering wheel that has inputs for cruise control and thankfully, also gives the driver dominion over ADAS and mandated warnings. Goodbye to the infuriating 2024 speed bong at the touch of a button, then.
While there are still stalks for the wipers, lights and media, there’s another curious looking appendage on the Renault 5’s steering column: what looks like a classic column shifter. This is the ‘e-pop’ shifter, with a tip designed to look like a lipstick case. Thanks to it being one of a number of swappable 3D-printed trim pieces, you can customise the look of it and change it after a while too.