Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

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Hefty in reply to @user75204

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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hugo7 in reply to @Hefty

Abarth

Was that a production car?

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Hefty in reply to @hugo7

Yep. Part of the normal lineup afaik.

Spiritually the Mini Cooper was maybe the beginning of hotted up normal little cars but Minis don’t have a hatch so it probably doesn’t strictly count as a hot hatch.

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