Hot Hatch

Toyota has been teasing fans of all-wheel-drive performance cars with little tidbits about its new GR Corolla. The car has finally gone official, and most of its specs have been revealed.…

Spanish automaker SEAT’s CUPRA performance division is showing off one of the sickest looking hot hatches we’ve seen in a while. The UrbanRebel Concept was designed to tease its electric future while still retaining its sports car character.…

Some of my favorites cars are of the hot hatch variety – and the Hyundai Veloster N is one of the best hot hatches you can buy today.…

What is there to say about the Honda Civic Type R that hasn’t already been said? It’s lightning quick, only comes with a manual and a clutch pedal, can stow all sorts of stuff inside its oh-so practical Honda hatch, and looks like a high school kid’s rendition of what a tuned Japanese rocket ship should look like in real life.…

Months after embarking upon a jaw-droppingly scenic trip across the Pacific Northwest in the all-new Nissan Rogue Sport, I find myself revisiting the little miscreant once more with an enthusiast’s eye.…

We don’t get as many hot hatches here in the US as I think we deserve, so we often have to live vicariously through folks in Europe to get our fix.…

I’ll be the first to admit that the Toyota Yaris and the Ford Fiesta aren’t exactly the cars that I would want to add to my stable given any choice out there.…

Another of the car brands that folks in Europe can get hands on that we can’t here in the US is Renault. Most of their car’s are pretty boring, so we don’t lament that fact much.…

We’ve already seen a little bit of the Ford Focus RS being hooned around by Ken Block for its premiere, and now we have just a little more driving footage to enjoy.…

While there’s little chance we’ll see Renault cars sold in the U.S. any time soon, cars like the Renault Megane 275 Trophy make us wish they would reconsider.…