► Toyota's GR Yaris takes on all comers ► Ten contenders, only one rises to the top ID.3, new M3 – 2020's given us some big new cars. But the really high achievers are a class of outstanding new hot hatches. Ten precocious talents, one winner... Meet the hot hatch heroes The benchmarks: VW Golf GTI, Hyundai i30N and Ford Focus ST Conventional, yes, but ordinary? Hardly. Every new Golf GTI matters, but few have mattered more than this one, the eighth generation of Wolfsburg's fast, affordable and fun original. Myriad rivals have muscled in on its premium turf, and if this generation of Golf is to go down in history as one of the greats, its GTI needs to do the business at the keen end of the market.