Red top 2.0-litre, white on white and a digital dash - behold '80s hot hatch perfection
The demise of the hot hatch is sad to witness. Especially as there is still demand for compact, fast, family-friendly cars - just now higher riding ones that aren’t quite as good to drive. And cost more money. Hot hatches were always so popular because they offered so many attributes under one roof, just as well suited to the school run as they were a Sunday morning blast. They should still be a success, and in a way they still are, albeit in the form of SUVs derived from hot hatches.
Vauxhall was, of course, a mainstay of the segment for decades, offering up SRIs, GSIs, GTEs and VXRs of all shapes and sizes. Now there’s an Astra GSe plug-in, and the least said about that the better, really. Again, we won’t write it off just yet, given the state of flux the industry is currently in, but the future doesn’t look brilliant for fast, fun-to-drive hatchbacks.
The GTE wasn’t just white wheels, digital dash and a punchy 16-valve engine, but that sure as heck didn’t harm its cause. The Astra looked great, went like stink and boasted some look-at-me tech as well. A hot hatch of the 1980s needed nothing else.
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