Gassing Station | Car Buying | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff. Use the 2.0-litre lump like you would a torque-rich turbo engine and you’d call the Clio Cup dog slow, because it feels lacklustre in the mid-range. The Clio may be a sedate city car but add a powerful 1.6-litre engine to its light body and you get a whole different animal. The hatchback represents everything that’s respectable about motoring – they’re practical, economical and sensible – perfect for a family drive. DELETED: Comment made by a member who's account has been deleted. Owning a hot hatch doesn’t have to cost the world though. Here are some of the best hot hatches on the market for just £15,000. The UK's most popular hatchback gets the hot ‘ST’ treatment, and is all the better for it. i don't think anyone posting would deny the ST 5 cylinder makes the others sound a bit pants. Personally that's what i would go for if i had that budget. It comes with a full service history and is advertised at £9000 See Volkswagen Golf R32 for sale on Pistonheads. Rear-wheel-drive silliness and more than 300bhp with the practicality of a hatchback. Put a gun to my head and I’ll tell you the Ford Fiesta STis the better car, but the truth is that it depends on the scenario. This is a
 car you drive flat out everywhere, leaving nothing in reserve. We’ll miss gritty, revvy engines like this one some day, if we don’t already. The supercar pulls out
a few lengths every time the road straightens a little but, whenever it bunches up into a sequence of bends, the gap is reduced to nothing. The best used hot hatchbacks under £15,000 ... it’s some of the best fun you can have in a car (plus you still have plenty of room for the shopping). Price: £9998. You get loads of car for your money, too with a 7-inch touchscreen multimedia system, sat nav, automatic headlights and wiper blades and cruise control. Haha. With its vivid range of colours and sporty bodywork, the Focus ST always stands out from the crowd. We found: 14 plate Kia pro-ceed 1.6T GDi GT Tech 3dr Focus ST225 Op for your budget. You can drive the ST at five-tenths and find yourself enjoying every moment of it without really knowing why. We found: 15 plate Ford Focus 2.0 TDCi 185 ST-2 5dr I looked at all the hot hatches before i got my ST225 and I think it's the best all round choice. In many ways, I reckon they’re the very best kind of car, full stop. If you are set on a Focus what about a C30 T5. It’s unmodified and has a full service history See Ford Focus RS for sale on Pistonheads. 5k will get you a reasonable mileage 2006. Owning a hot hatch doesn’t have to cost the world though. So is the Audi R8 V10 that’s up ahead. When you add some sporty trim and a high-performance engine, it should be a hideous mismatch, but somehow it’s the perfect blend. I have no idea about boot space on them but they are Focus ST based with the same engine and something tells me they would be less to insure not being as lairy as an ST. You mentioned tuneable but also mentioned fuel economy and a 5k price limit. And as proven by my moment of humiliation a few years ago, the very best of them really do have the pace to keep up with far more exotic cars. They are pretty well screwed together and handle high miles (mine was 118k and still tight and drove as well as my 8j TT with 20k on the clock). Check the tax bands for the MPS - I was looking at the 3 recently and some are on the £520 rate. The Clio holds on like a limpet, which is where its giant-killing cross- country pace comes from. They do place you a little too high, though, and the steering wheel doesn’t adjust for reach, so you sit hunched up like a hungry trucker leaning guardedly over his breakfast. Explore the amazing range of hot hatches available. But after that eye-widening dash across north Wales, I know better than most how much bravery, commitment and skill it takes to keep a little hatchback stuck to a supercar’s rear bumper. Isn’t 
that just so much more rewarding than tentatively prodding the lower tranches of a supercar’s absolute pace? Haymarket Media Group, publishers of Autocar takes your privacy seriously. I know you wanted turbo power, but how about something a bit different? Built 2001-2003 Price range £10,500-£25,000 We’d pay £13,000 We found A 2003 RS with 72,000 miles for £13,300. Unlike that car, though, it rolls in corners and pitches and dives, rather than staying completely flat. It’s another car that you drive just as quickly as you can from start to finish. I've spent years tuning cars and if you go down that route, you should expect fuel economy to be poor and to put wear on various components at a much faster rate (clutch, brakes, drive train etc and there's also a chance of an engine rebuild at some point). Best Used Hot Hatches 2017 Ford Fiesta ST Built 2013-2017 Price range £7500-£21,500 We’d pay £9500 We found An ST-2 from 2013 with 27,000 miles and Mountune upgrade. One of the real hot hatch greats, the Renault Clio Williams is now an appreciating classic. Its 1.6-litre turbo engine is much more flexible than the Clio’s normally aspirated motor but less exciting
 at the top end. It’s 2009, some time in autumn. Not to mention a £300 re map will see just shy of 270bhp with a load of Torque. They may have a reputation as cars for boy racers but they tend to be driven on the city streets, which means you can find plenty of used models with low mileage. The Focus does have an advantage over the others with it's engine note. You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe mechanism on any email you receive from us. © 2020 Pistonheads Holdco Limited, All Rights Reserved. Huge fun to drive. The R53-generation Mini is looking better with every passing year. These future classics keep their value so you’ll have to go back a few years to find one in this price range, but these are cars for car enthusiasts, so the chances are you’ll find one that’s in pretty good nick. in real time. From that moment on, I’ve had
 a profound appreciation for hot hatches. The Ford’s seating position is so much better than the Renault’s. Hot hatchbacks are more powerful than the regular versions of family cars, and that means they're more expensive. Once you get it working above 5000rpm and right up to the 7500rpm redline, though, 
it really does fling the car along at a good old lick. Yep this is perfect or how about a Impreza WRX estate? Price: £14,998. The Clio Cup feels as fizzy and as effervescent now as it did eight years ago. To learn more about how we use the information you provide to us please see our, Top 10 best used hot hatches - top 100 used cars 2017, From supercars to SUVs: Maserati's do-or-die revival plan, I always suspected a well- driven hot hatch could keep up with a proper sports car, perhaps even a full-blown supercar, on a winding country road. The front end generates massive cornering grip, and with the whole car buzzing away with messages from all four corners, it’s easy to use every last ounce of that grip, mile after mile.

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