80's Hot Hatches, RS, GTi's.....

[badmash]

Who remembers these beasts

Lotus Carlton

177mph

 

[Pigeonho]

Who remembers these beasts

Lotus Carlton

177mph

A guy I knew had one of these. It had been custom sprayed the 'lotus green' colour. We went to Sankey's for my 18th and he drove in that. I swear I must have shit myself.
Lovely car, had an electric dash on it, which at the time I was fascinated with!

 

[shadygiz]

Who remembers these beasts

Lotus Carlton

177mph

shockingly bad understeer for a car with lotus suspension set up.....saying that the VXR's are no better nowadays

 

[wayne71]

Whats todays equivelent ?

Too many driver aids and too much safety to ever have cars like these 80's hot hatches again, for some reason having a 120ish mph hatch with the stopping characteristics of a bar of soap has limited marketing appeal these days. Probably the nearest I can think of for a more "recent" car that is destined for "hot" hatch "classic" status would be the rare lupo gti, the Clio sport is probably another but there are plenty about. Turbos/supercharged cars will always be popular due to the tune-ability, hoping to buy the often overlooked polo g40 soon if all goes well.

They also don't seem that fast in comparison to normal cars any more. The 3 series diesels you see reps driving up and down the motorway would probably wipe the floor with most hot hatches these days.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

Williams Clio.

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

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Had a GTI-6 quick down the lanes, could keep up with most.