Hot hatch corner

Hot Hatch Corner is a local tyre supply and fitting centre serving Longton and the surrounding area. We offer a personal service and local knowledge along with an excellent range of tyre brands to suit all pockets and vehicles. As well as tyres we also offer wheel balancing and tracking. Fox Alloy Wheels bring a refreshing new twist to the UK.

It all began with a passion for motor racing… Giampiero.

Calibre Alloy Wheels are the UK’s favorite alloy wheel brand. We have over years experience in the automotive industry and can give a wide range of advice to suit your requirements.

You dont pay online, just place your booking and choose your fitting date and time and pay once fitted. Reading Time: min. We stock tyres from leading. Hyundai iN to Start from £2995.

I booked via the online form at a time and date that suited myself.

Not only were they very good with pricing and choice, I found the staff to be very good. After booking in, I was asked to go straight in and the work carried out while I waited. Maybe fifteen minutes later I was settling the bill. Staffordshires largest Alloy Wheel specialist, and supplier of Performance Car Accessories.

Hot hatches usually have a lot of styling extras too, such as large rear wings and alloy wheels. Every man and his dog’s favourite hot hatch, you’ll see them on every street corner.

But there’s a reason why everyone, their brother and uncle, buys a Fiesta ST – they’re pretty darn good! The latest version has even lost a cylinder, and it’s still pretty good. Mini GP The hot hatch offers a winning formula.

It’s compact, relatively practical and easy to live with on a day-to-day basis yet fast enough to induce a wide-reaching grin within seconds. Crisis averted: this is still the standout hot hatch in its class – a feisty little firecracker that level-pegs with the Alpine A1for smiles per mile. If ever anyone questions how a hot hatch can be quick and practical, the answer lies in the Skoda Octavia vRS.

It has all of the space, comfort and versatility that make the rest of the range ideal family cars, except this one packs the same 230PS turbocharged 2. Whether on the open track or in autocross, one of the great things about a hot hatch like the GTI or Type R is that you can simply let the car rotate into the corner, take the right line, hit the apex and basically stomp the gas, letting the front LSD pull you out. But a hot hatch has to do both things and its rough ride and absence of rear seats means it can’t win here.

The Focus should probably go next, brilliant though it is.

Two years later however and the car gained an all-wheel-drive system based on the. The Fiesta ST won this category last year, and it’s still an outstanding used hot hatch at three years old. Rivals such as the Mini Cooper S, Renault Clio RS and Volkswagen Polo GTI are nowhere.

All Minis corner like hot hatches, but opting for one with the famous John Cooper Works badge on the rear means you get the power under the bonnet to really exploit the car’s playful chassis. For our £10k budget, you’ll be looking at late examples of the second-generation ‘new’ Mini, in good condition with full service history.

Fortunately for hot hatch purists such as myself, internet classifieds are chock-full of manual hatchbacks that can drop the kids off at school, the dog at the vet, and then leave you hooting and hollering as you lift the inside rear-wheel on a tight left-hander on the way to work. Hot hatches have gone faster yet in our time: the addition of 4WD and paddleshift gearboxes mean Audi, Mercedes and BMW now make five-doors that will outdrag most sports cars, but the Civic sticks.

Rarely is the lump under the bonnet the most memorable aspect of a hot hatch, and that’s the case with the Cupra R, although for a four-cylinder workhorse, this one is absurdly talented. That is a pessimistic calculation including taxes.

A wheel-at-each- corner stance means even the standard MINI hatch is a sharp steer, so fitting it with a 2. The Ais extraordinarily capable in the corners, and unlike most other all-wheel drive hot hatches (save for the discontinued Ford Focus RS), it doesn’t just give you heaps of understeer when you. A well-developed hot - hatch is agile and punchy and it abundantly over-delivers on thrills.

Yet in the daily grind it shows an innocent face, quietly justifying itself to your spouse, kids and fleet. So to recap: the Golf GTI has undermined the hot - hatch concept because it’s such a brilliant all-rounder.

If only there was a hot hatch as talented as the GTI but more, well, interesting. The Leon is basically a Spanish version of the Golf and the Cupra is the hot version.

This cycle seems to be repeating after every generation of hot hatches being released. In place of the previous generation’s 1. Inside, the Polo can now be specified with VW’s Active Info display, and the boundaries of ‘small hatch’ are pushed further with 3litres of boot space. It is, and it’s in the UK, the natural home of the hot hatch. Britain’s buyers lap them up, and our roads present the kind of boisterous assault course that can liven up even the most prosaic of.

I love a hot hatch, they are practical and most of them have sensible running costs. I have come to realise I love a nice revvy motor and sharp handling Vs big turbo grunt and straight line speed.