I've had many hot hatches including Japanese, German, Italian and French. Of all these the Intergra Type R and Alfa Romeo 147 GTA where amazing in a completely different way - one was a racing car for the road and the other a flawed over engined sloppy chassis piece of automotive genius, nothing i have had or will have again pluck your heart strings as the Afla did. The 3.2 V6 sounded like a Dino and had torque, too much for the chassis so after i added a LSD and added another 30 bhp (standard they were 245) it was like a rabbid dog, loved it. Should i ever move back to the UK again i will definitely buy another as a weekend car.