The pin up cars of my youth are hypercars of today and by putting them in 101 I would be robbing this generation of aspiration.
Finally a decent argument to my point.
Warm and hot hatches; I'll have to disagree with you. There's nothing like a good Jekyll and Hyde car that you can drive as smooth as a hearse or like you're on a tarmac rally stage.
But like Hypercars and the biggest issue I have with those; the hot hatch has become yet another victim of Top Trumping. Renault came out with the Clio 172 (hp) in the name so the 206 GTi became the 180 then a year later the Clio became the 182 and so on throughout the market. With no thought toward the chassis and other improvements that would be needed manufacturers kept putting more and more powerful engines in their cars. We have ended up with cars that are barely drivable let alone fun on the road. Things like the Volvo powered Focus ST and the Vauxhall VXR range have taken the dare I say it humble hot hatch and turned into the car the Daily Mail wrote in fear about in the 90's.
I have given serious consideration to putting my 16V Coupe turbo engine into my Bravo HLX and making basically a Fiat badged Lancia Delta HPE but the biggest thing stopping me is how stupid hot hatches are if they have more power than the chassis can handle.
Besides apart from a few minor issues and potential improvements (on the pipeline) my Bravo is pretty much perfect as she is. Certainly does everything I'll ever need a road car to do.
So how about warm and hot hatches stay and Tabasco powered ones can go? Put a 200bhp cap on it perhaps.
In my opinion there is no difference between the hypercars of now or the past, it's just the level of technology that's moved on
You could put together an argument that's the same with hot hatches they've got better with technology. The difference in my opinion is that supercars/hypercars were always about being far more than you could use but majoring on the theatre. I suspect we are on the same side of the fence regards hatches. Hot hatches were about being a usable fun car, if your 4wd automatic turbo hatch can go 0 to instaban in 7 seconds without any skill then what is the point? You spend most of the time pootling about watching the speedo which isn't fun. At anything except ridiculous speeds the huge wheels tyres and brakes fitted as standard renders the car inert. Not to say they aren't hugely capable and very impressive it's just the rather appear to have lost their way.
Then again when reading an article on PH about the Ford Sierra cosworth RS500 which mentioned the brake and tyre sizes and they looked familiar. I realised at that point my 1.6 petrol hatch shares its 205/50 tyre size..but that the wheel and brake diameter on the 1.6 petrol is bigger than the homologation special Ford. Obviously the fast hatch cannot have the same size wheels tyres as the slow one and so it goes on.
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