Top 5 hot hatches

HOW DOES NEW GBU WORK? Our road testers rank the best cars currently available in 12 categories, and highlight the ones to buy

EVER since the first Volkswagen Golf GTI and Peugeot 205 GTi graced our roads, the best hot hatches have offered performance and driving thrills wrapped up in a practical and reasonably affordable pac

LIKE skinny jeans, family hatchbacks were popular throughout the noughties and early 2010s. However, tastes have changed and buyers are now after something more fashionable with a little more space. I

YOU’LL HAVE NO need for an alarm clock if you own an A45, because you’ll want to wake up at the crack of dawn just so you can go for a blast in it. Not only is this 416bhp, four-wheel-drive rocketship

THERE are no two ways about it, the latest Honda Civic Type R has become an expensive and indulgent kind of car. In this day and age, you could even call it a misfit, with its eye-watering £52k price

THIS IS NOW THE ONLY G80 available, as Genesis phases out all ICE cars. A mid-life facelift means it now claims 354 miles of range thanks to its bigger 94.5kWh battery, up on the old 323 miles and 87.