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Renault 5 Gordini, such a classy little car,which wiki tells me was the worlds first hot hatch as it was released before the OG Golf GTi.
Kinda. The Gordini was the UK version and didn’t arrive until after the Golf, but the French version, the Alpine, was before the Golf.
The Autobianchi Abarth predates them both by 5 years tho.
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Doc Brown and his Delorean just dropped me off in a shitty looking estate in Battersea between August 1st 1980 to July 31st 1981.
That's the only explanation I have for what just happened, as there's no fucking way an OG Mini Metro is in as good a condition as this, outside in winter in 2023.
Its not often I'm stopped in my tracks by a shit car. My eye was first caught by the other car from the same year, the super cool Renault 5 Gordini, such a classy little car,which wiki tells me was the worlds first hot hatch as it was released before the OG Golf GTi.
But I couldn't help just staring at the Metro too, holy shit I don't think even new ones at the dealership back then looked as clean as this, I thought they'd all rusted to nothing. A proper time capsule.
