Even before the Macan compact SUV arrived five years ago, Porsche – still reckoned by many to be a sports car manufacturer first and foremost – was selling more five-door cars than coupes and roadsters. But not by much.
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You can only buy your first sports car once, so it’s worth taking the time to get it right. Whatever your budget, be it £2,000 or much more than that, there are so many potential candidates that navigating your way through the second-hand marketplace can be daunting.
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Not since 1976 has the Volkswagen Golf GTI been in the business of revolution. Scholars will never fully agree on which car was the very first hot hatch, but that original Golf GTI did kickstart the fast hatchback revolution. Since then, the sporty Golf has tended towards slow and steady evolution, and so it is with the latest, eighth-generation version, announced this week ahead of its public debut at the 2020 Geneva motor show.
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When the Audi Quattro was unveiled at the Geneva motor show 40 years ago, not even Ferdiand Piech, one of the all-time great leaders of the automotive industry, could have foreseen the impact the car would have on Audi, on motorsport and on the automotive sector as a whole.
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In this test, the 2020 BMW M135i meets the Volkswagen Golf R, which has been the best car of its type for more than half a decade. It’s been imperious, like the tennis virtuoso who makes you think he or she might never lose again. No other upmarket four-wheel drive hot hatch has ever got the better of it, failing either to match the Golf’s composure on very bumpy roads or its ease of use in normal driving.
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