27 Feb 2014, 11:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Britain is probably the second biggest hot hatch market in the world, after Germany. Go to Essex and you will see people waving at you if you drive a Focus RS or a well tuned Golf GTI. After last...
26 Feb 2014, 10:35 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Opel is set to rock the world of hot hatches at the Geneva Motor Show, with the carmaker scheduled to introduce the Astra OPC EXTREME at the Swiss event. Opel explains that the development used t...
26 Feb 2014, 08:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This next set of spy photos taken in Sweden raise a whole lot of questions that will likely remained unanswered. Why is the snow melting in Scandinavia? Why is the driver flipping the bird? And what...
25 Feb 2014, 19:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We don't like to credit the guy with anything he hasn't done, but Jeremy Clarkson is probably the reason why the Renault Clio RS is a cult car. His Top Gear review from round about 2005, i...
22 Feb 2014, 13:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen has only been focusing hard on the Japanese market for a couple of years, but their efforts are showing. We've seen all sorts of crazy tuning projects involving Golfs and even the ti...
21 Feb 2014, 12:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With all the headlines being greedily sucked up by the A45 AMG and Audi S3 right now, it's all to easy to ignore the brand new SEAT Leon Cupra. However, doing that would be a terrible mistake. ...
12 Feb 2014, 10:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / I still remember the day I first saw a 2001 Honda Civic Type R, that little Japanese box that captured my imagination and made me fall in love with hot hatches. I was too young to know about the Int...
3 Feb 2014, 14:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The automotive world is filled with rumors, but every once in a while they all line up in the same direction and point towards the truth. Like a compass pointing North, all reports about next year&...
30 Jan 2014, 18:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Hot hatches used to be something only Europeans seemed to understand, but suddenly Ford decided enough was enough and brought not one but two rally sweet little gems to America. Of the two, the Fies...
24 Jan 2014, 17:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / For true Renault fans, this title is probably very strange. That's because the Clio GT used to have a 1.6-liter with 133 hp, just like the Twingo RS. Oddly, its replacement that came out in 201...
24 Jan 2014, 12:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / At first glance, Volkswagen's 1.6 TDI seems underpowered compared to its rivals. Sure, the top-output version was recently bumped from 105 PS to 110 PS in some models like the Golf or SEAT Leon...
21 Jan 2014, 10:15 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In one of their recent reports, Auto Express magazine says the hot supermini hatch that Audi has been working on for the past year is indeed called the S1. According to the Brits, this premium car ...
15 Jan 2014, 18:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / How hardcore can a hot hatch get? In America, that answer seems to be "look at the Golf R". The previous generation was only brought Stateside because people were asking for it. Hot ha...
13 Jan 2014, 14:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Hot hatches, automobiles designed to take the kids to school on schooldays and then let daddy have some fun on the track. They are at home in the Ikea parking lot and on the drag strip in equal meas...
11 Jan 2014, 11:52 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In today’s news that isn’t really news, we think it’s the right time for speculation. Earlier this week, SEAT revealed a brand new Leon Cupra, which confusingly is now not one car ...
8 Jan 2014, 08:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you're a hot hatch fan that lovers VW's TSI turbos and slick DSG gearboxes, but think the Golf GTI is just not exciting enough to look at or drive, we've got big news for you. Span...
5 Jan 2014, 15:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen Group is often accused of staying in its shell, but the Germans do make some original cars once in a while, cars that rarely get noticed. Nobody gave a second thought to Audi’s new ...
4 Jan 2014, 07:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In the 2000s, Volkswagen Group thought variation is the key to success in the hot hatch supermini market. And so, the Skoda Fabia vRS had a 1.9 TDI diesel engine with about 130 hp, while VW's P...
12 Nov 2013, 16:59 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Is the Abarth a hot hatch? Well, it's a hatch and it's hot, but we think it's more like a European version of the Mopar experience. You have different customization options, from the ...
11 Nov 2013, 13:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / During a recent interview with Autonews Europe, Peogeot CEO CEO Maxime Picat said a great many things about resale value, brand ambitions and premium quality. But the real revelation was not that th...