On the other hand, we have someone who has voted uncool, based on which wheels are driven and how the boot opens. I still struggle to understand why either of those things are relevant?
Can't speak for everyone but typically hatches start off at an uncool for me because I've always associated them with with cars bought out of financial necessity. Hatches are bought by teenage learners because it's all they can afford to insure, and teenage drivers are
never cool... or they are bought by elderly people. Whilst I know the GTI doesn't tick those boxes, it's still the image that clings to the body style - but the same way as certain other cars have been judged on associative factors.
FWD in a small performance car, I appreciate can be effective, but I find it positively comical when I'm in friends warm hatches, or other wise "hot" FWD cars, and they power-plough off roundabouts or out of some bends. For sure, me trying to do the same thing in an old RWD BMW probably isn't much safer or more effective, but there's something I prefer about balancing the car with the back-end of the car, rather than the front. My first car was a diesel 106, you could get gobs of lift-off oversteer, but it's not the same.
I'm not trying to say that RWD
is superior or FWD
is lame, but sometimes people do have valid reasons for thinking things are not that cool... which also brings me on to this...
That low weight means that on the right road it has a genuine giant killing quality, too, as the owner of a Maserati GranTurismo I once came across found out to his cost
A car which can humble more expensive and "faster" machinery? Cool
Without exception, EVERYONE I know who drives or drove a hot-hatch has, at one-time, regaled me with stories of how they've taken down M3's, M5's, Ferraris, Porsches....now I'm not saying they were all BS, or there aren't situations where something like that might potentially be plausible, but much more likely is the fact that people with much nicer cars, that cost
alot more, probably with more years of driving experience, probably aren't going to attempt to take their cars to the limit on public roads - where as little Billy Hot-Hatch is probably too busy trying to prove something to have that much sense.
edit: for me it also got pushed down to SU because I hate, and I mean hate, the styling. This and the 309 go down as two of the cars I find most vile to look at.
For any car really, but just for :censored:s and giggles?
