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Hota to Hatcho: 24hrs in Japan with the best hot hatch of all time, the Honda Civic Type R

Top Gear's 10-car hot hatch shootout: is there hope for its future?

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Official: the new R5 Turbo gets 536bhp, a massive 3,540lb ft, and a rally handbrake

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Hot hatch king? This is the carbon-obsessed GRMN Corolla

The Ford Escort XR3i has been rebigulated with more power and more suspension

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Toyota GR Yaris Aero Performance review: hot hatch joy (and the world’s best handbrake) for £49k

Bowie, The Beatles and rallying: the future of Mini design sounds interesting

Does the new 223bhp ID. Polo GTI deserve VW’s most iconic badge?

Take that Honda! VW has snatched the front-wheel drive Nürburgring record

The new 277bhp Corsa GSE hot hatch is the fastest Vauxhall you can buy

"A mini masterpiece": why the EP3 Honda Civic Type R is a proper hero car

The new Audi RS3 ‘competition limited’ is a very expensive hot hatch with fancy coilovers

The small, hot Vauxhall is back: a new Corsa GSE is coming

Cupra Leon review: a hot hatch of vast breadth

The Toyota GR Yaris Morizo RR is a limited edition hot hatch honed by the boss

Meet your heroes: the Seat Leon Cupra R was raw, analogue, and old school

Top Gear's Anti-Awards: these are the biggest failures of 2025

BMW M135 review: hottest 1 Series gets a new track-focused tune

Cupra Leon VZ review: can this 325bhp hot hatch take the Type R's place?

The Ford Focus is officially dead, and we want to hear your fondest memories of it

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Toyota GR Corolla (US) review: a successful evolution of an already good car

Look, the Alpine A290 is in Glen Powell’s new film ‘The Running Man’

Ford Fiesta ST200: time to revisit one of the all-time hot hatch greats

Volkswagen Polo GTI review: the last bastion of the small hot hatch?

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