GTI - "The Golf is definitely more road car than track car", "It's properly quick yet feels safe and solid to drive quickly"
i30N - "The i30 N is a workout to drive aggressively", "The steering is heavy even in its most relaxed setting", "The clutch is supremely well weighted for driving like your hair's on fire, if a touch too heavy for long traffic-jam crawls"
ST - "The ride in everyday situations is generally bearable, but it's incredibly jiggly through a pothole-riddled village"
As 99% of my time in the car is spent in traffic on pothole-riddled roads I'll live with the lack of mid corner lift-off oversteer and a manual gearbox and accept the fact that should I ever find myself on a race track in my daily the guys in the ST's and i30's may have slightly bigger smiles on their faces (although those on the track in actual race cars will be using clutch-less paddle shift gears and trying every kind of set up to avoid lift-off oversteer
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Jake's perception of what a hot hatch needs to deliver is clearly very different to mine, and I'd suggest many others, but it would be a boring world if we all thought the same way.