A man on facebook was calling the Ur-500 and Mini hot hatchbacks

Kinja'd!!! "Bandit" (2bandit)
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I had to correct him. /coolstorybandit


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Kinja'd!!! lonestranger > Bandit
09/09/2014 at 21:39

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60% more power, close ratio tranny, front disc brakes, etc. in order to meet homologation for rally. An O.G. Cooper or Cooper S is definitely hot. Hatch? Not so much, but I'd let it slide.


Kinja'd!!! ACESandEIGHTS > Bandit
09/10/2014 at 12:28

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Wouldn't have occurred to me I guess. Do you have to meet the Civic/Golf/etc. wedge-look criterium to be a hot hatch?

Couple of counter cool stories:

1) This is the first tuned compact I ever saw ('85 or '86 Dodge Colt), kinda predated the hot hatch/Civic tuning scene by several years 'cause it was from '85/'86. Dude was hip, and this thing was fast and loud, but everyone in the neighborhood wondered why he didn't have a muscle car like everyone else. Probably 'cause he's Californian.

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2) This is the best hot hatch:

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