When you want to go faster, for less. What hot hatch would you buy for £5k?
No segment is as universally adored as the hatchback made hot. Fact. Sure, nearly all of us are partial to rear-drive sports cars or big-engined wagons or scandalously fast supercars - but for many the finer exponents of each breed are about as attainable as a holiday home on Mauritius. Yes, we'd love to have one. But not in this lifetime. A hot hatch, on the other hand, is as gettable as a pint of semi-skimmed. It is literally the point of the them.
Then came the bitterness. Within a matter of weeks the sunroof drain hole blocked up, the battery died, the automatic transmission packed up, and we parted ways with me £3k down. This left me with an enduring distrust of sealed-for-life gearboxes, although it speaks to the quality of the car that I'd still recommend a Mini Cooper S regardless. Which one? Well, whilst my head says post-2010 R56 , my heart is still foolishly with the earlier variations.
The newest car on this list, although I'm honestly not sure where nine years has gone. A '13 plate still seems like it ought to qualify as nearly new. Obviously the 208 GTI saga is well-known - it had to live up to the long shadow of the legendary of the 205 GTI and be better than the 206 and 207 GTI which preceded it .
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