Uhm , yes the police got their tools and awareness. But the most important thing is that car manufactures have simple stopped building them. Yes, of course there are hot hatches today but for ridicoulous prices not to mention the power and overly luxurious and fitted with all kinds of 'entertainment features'. Just look how the 205 - 208 just got fat. The GTi very pricy and no cheaper rallye version . The 106 to the 108 has become from a hot hatch to a second car for the wife for groceries and bringing the kids to school. Also the lack for a certain ammount of homologation models is ofcourse a good bottle neck as well. Whether it is for rallying and those classes have changed rapidly in the last few years: back in the nineties you had the Super 1600 rally and cups. This is where a lot of hot hatches got their fame from as well. Like the Saxo Cup. Clio Cup is still here. In the Netherlands there was even a Fiat Cinquecento cup.
But the EG6 SiR has 170hp from factory double wishbone suspension LSD diff and short gear ratio and better brakes much better than those French cars and this is coming from a Toyota guy
@@shingosshojiopoulos6608 Makes sense why everyone in europe has it while the 5th gen Civic hatchback SiR was the best selling civic in Japan Motoharu Kurosawa gave a great review of it in 91''' debut
I had a Pug 106, only a 1.1 but it really is a nice looking car and handles really well. You don't see the GTi's anymore probably because boy racers wrecked them all because it can't have been rust....they don't rust !
Don't listen to him, don't buy in Portugal. Same story here but worst. Used cars are crazy expensive, tired of the mileage and everything is modified. To give you an idea, what you think is good for the scrapyard, we still drive and sell 2x times its price.
Watching this. I remember the Mazda 323 BF SS 1.6L 16v turbocharged little beasty with 15ohp. Not very fast 0-60 but, torque steer queen haha. That was 1988 btw ;)
Agree with you 💯 my first car was a 1.1 205 style and my mates in there 1.2 nova and fiesta couldn’t keep up then my second car was the 205 xs 1.4 and it would beat 1.6 nova gte I loved the 205’s
@@zavier1304 Honda civic EG6 SiR and EK9 Type R Mitsubishi Cyborg R Toyota Starlet EP82 turbo Pulsar/sunny/primera/almera GTI those hatchbacks eats the french ones for breakfast
America got their hot hatchbacks in the ,80s but they did not sell well, so we got screwed when it came time for the Type Rs and Focus ST, RS. Not until the late 2010s,and then manufactures make CUVs now
I wouldn't say so. I've had a vtr, vts and 2 1.7 pumas. I'd say the puma was better then the vtr but the vts was just in a different league when it came to speed just felt more eager to get going. The pumas definitely felt better built imo and still very entertaining! Just not quite as entertaining as the vts
What he doesnt tell you is that the Saxo and 106 fold like a house of cards in an accident. Punto is a bit better but not by much. Polo is by far the safest and best made, but also the slowest and softest. Best all round car but worst hot hatch. So personally I'd take.... An Ibiza Cupra :-)
I'd rather have the rather more obscure, better made and reliable Super Micra. 1.3 engine in a car thats as light as a Jay-cloth. A superbely overlooked car.
If a car has 160bhp then i dont need some keyboard nonce to tell me a Honda VTi would destroy all these cars. Maybe if these also had 160bhp and similar weights it would be a level playing field.......boy learns a similar size car with 30bhp more than the most powerful car here would win. Get the flags out.........
