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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): £

IT’S been more than 30 years since the Type R badge first appeared on a Honda. The NSX got the ball rolling, but the Integra Type R that followed set a template of rev-happy, front-wheel-drive perform

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

We were spoiled for choice when it came to outlandish performance that was genuinely attainable back in the Nineties, as this super sextet of buys proves

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

List price £65,045 Best price £59,645 MPG 30.8 CO2 208g/km For Savage acceleration; immense grip; entertaining handling; quick-shifting automatic gearbox Against Very expensive to buy; some hot hatche