Market hot for hot hatches

R5 GT Turbo not for you? We look at ten period rivals that continue to light up enthusiasts’ eyes

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

A Ford Escort RS 1800 that sold at auction in July for a record £276,848 is evidence of the growing appeal of modern classics to the Gen X and millennial generations, who now have the money and desire

We’ve all seen modern classics booming, but there’s a lot more to discover as our international panel of experts sort the wheat from the chaff

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

IT’S FAIR TO say that we’ve all become a little desensitised to extraordinary auction results, but sometimes they still catch us off-guard. A weekend message from James Elliott, showing a picture of a