Wheels24 contributor Ryan Bubear looks at the eight most potent hot hatchbacks you could buy in South Africa. Interestingly, the VW Golf 8 GTI doesn't feature on this list, but Toyota's little GR Yaris does…
Remember the days when a hatchback with well under 100kW was considered "hot"?
After all, the GTI version of the Volkswagen Golf Mk1 - perhaps the most widely known example of the early hot hatch - made somewhere in the region of 80kW.Of course, things have changed plenty since the mid-1970s and today, we have hatchbacks generating well in excess of 200kW.