Tagged hot hatch

There’s a new daddy coming to VW’s range of hot hatches and its name is the Golf GTI TCR. Unveiled this week at Wörthersee during the largest annual GTI meeting in the world, the 286bhp GTI TCR is the roa...

You may think that everyone in 2018 just wants to drive SUVs these days but there’s a new C-segment hatchback on the way and it’s a biggie. The Ford Focus was the fourth biggest-selling car in the UK las...

Vauxhall isn’t particularly renowned for the performance of its cars. Sure, we’ve had the odd exception - most notably, the VXR8 - but on the whole, a mention of Vauxhall usually conjures the image of a sen...

Ford have recently revealed new details on their upcoming 2018 Fiesta ST models and its exciting. Launch control and improved cornering technology are just some of the new features coming to Ford's latest Fi...

Of all the performance labels in the automotive sphere, GTI is undoubtedly one of the most respected. Slap those three letters on any car and you’ll immediately have the attention of any petrolhead and tha...

The end is nigh for the Ford Focus RS. It may have only been on sale for a couple of years, but the blue oval is calling time on the masterful hot hatch and, on April 6th, production of the Focus RS will end. ...

You know the Megane, right? Well, this is that humble Renault on speed, literally. The hot hatch landscape has changed significantly since the Megane RS was last available. It was pulled off-sale around ...

Sticking the letters GTI behind anything is a surefire way to ramp up interest in any car. It doesn’t even have to be a Volkswagen; the label has been applied to great effect with several Peugeot models (a...

The Volkswagen Golf GTI of today isn’t quite what it was when it first arrived in the UK in 1985. Granted, a lot of us have changed over the course of more than three decades and that’s the case for VW�...

Remember the Hyundai Veloster? You probably should; the quirky asymmetrical coupe-hatchback was part of Hyundai’s UK range up until late 2014. It wasn’t received very well over here, shifting around ...

The current generation SEAT Leon has been a colossal success for the Spanish car maker, with the stylish and refined hatchback sparking a raft of other models that looked to the small family car as a key refere...

‘They don’t make them like they used to’. It’s a phrase we hear often in 2017, especially in the automotive world, and when it comes to the Mini, it’s very true. The current third-generation Mini H...

The best hot hatches on the market go head to head in a quarter mile drag and a rolling start race to see who comes out on top. Lets get straight into it, the cars that will be taking part are: Audi RS3 ...

This body style is incredibly versatile and has so many advantages over other options. We’ve picked out some of our favourite hatchbacks and the best reasons to get a hatch, to help you decide if one is right...

The VW Golf Mk1 is a classic hatchback with heaps of character. Introduced in 1974, this hot hatch’s fuel efficiency was welcomed by drivers following the oil crisis and its simplicity made it very usable. ...

There wasn’t anything particularly wrong with the old Honda Civic Type R. With 305bhp from a two-litre VTEC turbo petrol engine and 400Nm of torque, it was rather nippy to say the least, hitting 62mph in 5...

Ford has revealed all on its forthcoming Fiesta ST ahead of the hot hatch’s physical unveiling at this week’s Geneva Motor Show. We already know a lot about the standard Fiesta, due to go on sale thi...

There’s definitely something appealing about a small car with a lot of power, my mind wanders back to the quest to put more power in the back of my Beetle, or the famous Mini Cooper rally car from the sixties...

The Honda Civic has been around for decades - since 1972 to be exact - and now in its tenth generation, the completely redeveloped family-sized hatchback seems well equipped to take the fight to the class-leadi...

Toyota have teased the release of their performance hot hatch Yaris ahead of its official release at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Although it isn’t much, it gives us an idea of how the car will look and we...

The current Seat Leon has been a solid fixture in the family hatchback market for some time now. However the high performance Cupra variant has always fallen short when trying to keep up with the hot-hatch mark...

A new car isn’t something you tend to find wrapped up, nestling at the base of a Christmas tree, on December 25th. They’re too big, too expensive and too prone to the whims of personal taste. Plus, w...

We talk about some pretty extraordinary cars on Motor-Vision, from EVs with more than 1,300bhp to street-legal Scuderias. So, why would we be interested in something as ordinary and ubiquitous as the Ford F...

The reveal of the vastly redeveloped Civic at the Paris Motor Show was overshadowed by the presence of a Type R prototype. The current Type R has only been on sale for around 12 months but the arrival ...