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MANY people consider the humble hot hatch to be a jack of all trades. Something that can do the school run or hop to the shops, before transforming into a scintillating sports car the moment the road

ESSENTIALS Volkswagen Golf R32 Price (new): £22,340 Powertrain: 3.2-litre V6, 238bhp 0-62mph: 6.6 seconds Top speed: 153mph Fuel Consumption: 24.4mpg Annual VED: £430 Alfa Romeo 147 GTA Price (new): £

VOLKSWAGEN’S success in Europe over the past decade has been down to two main models, Golf and Tiguan, right? Yet between these two juggernauts there’s been one more car that has been quietly lending

Nobody does a five-cylinder quite like Audi. Or should that be nobody did a five-cylinder quite like Audi? Fiat, Mercedes-Benz, Alfa Romeo and others have dabbled, and Volvo was a past master, but now

HOW much power is too much for a front-wheel-drive car? This is the question we found ourselves asking when accelerating hard out of a tight, second-gear corner in the new Cupra Leon VZ. Packing a 320

THERE IS AN argument that a Kinder Surprise egg is far less satisfying nowadays than it used to be back in the 1990s. Okay, those in agreement might be showing their age, but the reason for this isn’t