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30 years of hot hatches

The one to have started the hot hatch phenonoman was the 1977 VW Golf Gti Mk1 - (although technically the first "true" hot hatch was the Simca 1100 dating from 1967/8).

The most iconic...was the Golf GTi

The first Golf was designed by the famous Italian automobile architect Giorgetto Giugiaro, of the ItalDesign design studio.

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