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THE COOPER S WAS A SOGGY effort and this isn’t any better. You can forgive a hot hatch appalling ride but when it’s on top of a transmission that’s hard to gel with, an uninspiring soundtrack and impr

YOU MAY REMEMBER IN EVO’S FEBRUARY 2024 issue we got together almost every hot hatch on sale in the UK for one big summit-meeting test. There were 18 cars (sales of Audi’s S3 and RS3 were temporarily

THE 2025 Auto Express New Car Awards are upon us, and we’re struggling to remember a year that proved to be so tough at the top. It’s a reflection of just how well so many car manufacturers – both new

The first cars from Hyundai’s N performance sub-brand burst onto the scene in the form of petrol-powered, front-wheel-drive turbocharged hot hatchbacks – and they ruffled establishment feathers at eve

At first glance it isn’t immediately obvious just what segment the two cars on these pages fall into. Are they hatchbacks? Are they crossovers? Are they the size of a Smart Fortwo or a full fat Range

It was at once an unsatisfying and actually a very satisfying verdict for a group test. When I put the revised Volkswagen Golf against a pair of rivals in the Toyota Corolla and Peugeot 308 last Augus