{"id":11680,"date":"2021-04-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2021-05-14T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:16:28","slug":"the-quintessential-hot-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/the-quintessential-hot-hatch\/","title":{"rendered":"The quintessential hot hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Homologation Specials: 1980 Renault 5 Turbo\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58jrQ2Gcz7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a sedan type of car guy, through and through. And I <em>hate<\/em> SUVs with a passion. However, I do have a HUGE soft spot for hatchbacks, specially the so -called &#8220;hot hatches&#8221;. The <strong>Renault 5 Turbo<\/strong> is one of the best examples of a hot hatch. Weighing just 970 kg but with 160 hp on tap, the mid-engine homologation special was a driver&#8217;s dream. And the car was so good that instead of the minimum 400 units Renault needed for homologation, over 3100 cars were made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hate to look back and sound really old by saying those were the <em>&#8220;good old days&#8221;<\/em>. However, back then we had a Renault 5 Turbo. Nowadays, it looks like of every three cars on the road two are SUVs&#8230; \ud83d\ude23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sedan type of car guy, through and through. And I hate SUVs with a passion. However, I do have a HUGE soft spot for hatchbacks, specially the so -called &#8220;hot hatches&#8221;. The Renault 5 Turbo is one of the best examples of a hot hatch. Weighing just 970 kg but with 160 hp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/the-quintessential-hot-hatch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The quintessential hot hatch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-history","category-road-cars","post_format-post-format-video"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11917,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11680\/revisions\/11917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}