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MY EXPERIENCES WITH SOME OF THE VOLKSWAGEN Group’s other recent hot hatches put something of a dampener on my enthusiasm for the Fast Fleet Cupra Leon. I’d driven this facelifted model abroad on its l

This car was not supposed to exist. The 8Y-generation Audi RS3 was signed off based on a business case that assumed it would never make it past the base A3’s midlife facelift, because the 2.5-litre fi

IN THE WORLD of hot hatches, I tend to think of the Volkswagen Golf GTI as king, with this going back to my youth. You see, my older brother and I used to attend various modified car meetings around o

I t’s only a short drive; a quick evaluation run in a prototype. But it’s long enough to confirm something important. The new Golf GTI Edition 50 isn’t merely a decal-and-badge special – it’s the most

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING. ALMOST A decade since the Mk7 Golf GTI Clubsport S took our breath away – and second place at eCoty 2016 – Volkswagen is building another track-focused GTI to take on the hot h

‘INJECTION’ is a word that conjures up unpleasant thoughts for many of us, so perhaps it’s no surprise that BMW ditched the ‘i’ suffix (which stands for ‘fuel injection’) for this latest version of th