What's the best-looking hatchback ever?
Discussion
white_goodman said:
So, excluding coupes that happen to have hatchbacks, what in your opinion is the best-looking (workaday) hatchback ever? To try and keep it broad, I have tried to go for fairly standard versions of the car rather than the hot versions, which tend to look pretty good anyway! As a general rule, I tend to find that the 3 door version (where available) tends to have a more pure look about it than the 5 door version.
1970s
1980s
1990s
but this deserves an honourable mention because it still looks so right (although I don't believe that the bread and butter version has dated nearly so well).
2000s
but a 3 door mk1 Focus still looks sharp, especially in ST spec
2010s
but the current Fiesta and Polo also look inherently "right".
The mk1 Golf and 205 still have an inherent rightness to their designs, which in my opinion is timeless but it would probably have to be the Alfa, especially in GTA spec (but even a standard 2.0 TS still looks great) and much nicer looking than Alfas current hatchback efforts.
So, what in your opinion is the best-looking hatchback ever (try to keep it broad, ie one that still looks good in base spec, as well as "GTi" spec)?
Sorry OP. What's the red blob at the bottom? I genuinely have no idea!1970s
1980s
1990s
but this deserves an honourable mention because it still looks so right (although I don't believe that the bread and butter version has dated nearly so well).
2000s
but a 3 door mk1 Focus still looks sharp, especially in ST spec
2010s
but the current Fiesta and Polo also look inherently "right".
The mk1 Golf and 205 still have an inherent rightness to their designs, which in my opinion is timeless but it would probably have to be the Alfa, especially in GTA spec (but even a standard 2.0 TS still looks great) and much nicer looking than Alfas current hatchback efforts.
So, what in your opinion is the best-looking hatchback ever (try to keep it broad, ie one that still looks good in base spec, as well as "GTi" spec)?
The last iteration of the first hot hatch
Squirrelofwoe said:
caelite said:
Impasse said:
hornmeister said:
LP670 said:
Or perhaps the concept of the coupe is a regional thing and they are simply known as hatchbacks elsewhere!
Great pics though
2 doors and a big back door to the boot?
Though, at the time, they were considered a little weird, the Japanese offerings of "Minimerica" are, in retrospect, very well styled.
This was the Colt Celeste but you also had the Datsun 120Y Coupe and others of that ilk (Renault 15 and 17) but though hatchbacks, they were classed as coupes:
This was the Colt Celeste but you also had the Datsun 120Y Coupe and others of that ilk (Renault 15 and 17) but though hatchbacks, they were classed as coupes:
Edited by LuS1fer on Friday 16th September 20:19
Squirrelofwoe said:
caelite said:
Impasse said:
hornmeister said:
LP670 said:
Or perhaps the concept of the coupe is a regional thing and they are simply known as hatchbacks elsewhere!
Great pics though
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