When Hyundai announced its i30 N hot hatch it made no attempt to hide the fact that it was a Golf GTI hunter. While the first car was only available in SA with a manual transmission, the updated current car now offers the convenience (and raciness) of a double-clutch automatic gearbox.

Towards the end of 2022 (hence my reference to the Civic Type R coming "next year"), Hyundai kindly gave me the keys to its quite superb i30 N - and I proceeded to scare Kate...