Fastpaddy
Tarmac Traveler
Collective circumstances meant that I never got round to driving the great French hatchbacks. No Pug 306 GTi-6, no 205 GTI (never sold down here) no 106 GTI (also never sold here). Nor have I driven any of the great Clios or Meganes. Just never got the opportunity nor purposely pursued a test drive. Closest I've gotten in the hot hatch stakes are Golf GTIs and Citroen DS3s. I owned a Subaru WRX hatch for about 2 years but that doesn't count as a hot hatch. I did drive a Honda Civic Type R though but that was the one with the torsion beam rear axle that no one liked.
I just grew an absolute aversion (unjustifiably) to FWD hatchbacks - to hell with understeer, even if lift-off oversteer was on offer - and moved on to AWD and then RWD cars.
Drove a 991.2 GTS yesterday, tho, and that was farkin epic. Opposite lock on demand.
A 172 cup on track, youre pushing 10/10 and youre left wondering, where is the understeer? Its magical.
Its also the only car ive ever spun on the racetrack, well other than the first time I drove the supercharged atom.
And all my mates have spun the clio too.
This from guys who have had all kinds of stupidly high powered “modern” performance cars