This website is dedicated to some of the most iconic hot hatch backs of the 80's and 90's. If you were born in these either of these era's, or even before, there is a good chance you will have owned, driven, had a mate who had one or just simple had a poster of one on your bedroom wall. A handfull of the cars that defined a generation are shown on here, please have read about the different cars and hopefully reminisce about a previous part of your life.
The term hot hatch gained widespread use during the 1980s in the UK, first as 'hot hatchback' by 1983 and then shortened to 'hot hatch' in the motoring press in 1984 and first appeared in The Times in 1985, and is now commonly and widely accepted as a mainstream, if still informal term. It is retrospectively applied to cars from the late 1970s but was not a phrase used at the time.
Some sports cars are hatchback in form, but as they are not upgraded small family cars, they are not classified as hot hatches. Cars such as the Porsche 928, Porsche Panamera, Reliant Scimitar GTE and Ferrari FF have not been classified in print as hot hatches.