This is the greatest hot hatch ever, voted for by you #142

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel reveal the winner of The Intercooler's Hot Hatch World Cup. Eight cars from eight nations went head-to-head for the honour, and the Ti audience chose one champion. You may guess the winner, but you'll never guess what finished runner-up...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:07.0	The Intercooler Podcast. Happy New Year everybody and welcome to the first episode of 2023 episode 142. With me Dan Prosser and my TI co-founder and co-host Andrew
0:27.6	Frankel so this week we're talking about hot hatches over Christmas we ran a what we called the hot hatches. Over Christmas we ran a what we called the Hot Hatch World Cup
0:35.9	which was really just a little bit of fun to keep us occupied over Christmas, but it
0:40.4	turned into a bit of a thing and I think people enjoyed following it and the point of it was to declare one hot hatch the greatest of all time as voted for by the intercooler audience. So that's what we talk about this week. But we begin
0:54.5	this episode on a somber note with the very sad news that Ken Block was killed in a snowmobile
1:02.4	accident yesterday. So we get onto Hot Hatches soon, but we begin by talking about Ken Block.
1:10.0	I never met Ken Block, you didn't either, but it's just impossible in our world not to
1:15.2	be aware of him I think we knew plenty of people between us who did know him and I've had conversations
1:20.7	with people in the past who just say he's just a great guy.
1:24.0	You got that sense from watching him, from seeing him in interviews, just energetic,
1:31.6	seemed to be very pleasant, very generous with his time. I was following the
1:36.2	WRC quite closely when he contested a few rounds. I think back in 2010. Now the guy wasn't quite on the pace of Sebastian Loeb and the best in the world
1:48.1	but he was a serious he was a seriously good driver nevertheless and you can tell that from his
1:54.1	Jim Carna videos. You know it all that stuff takes a heck of a lot of skill and he
2:01.0	could do it and he was a proper showman wasn't he?
2:03.8	I mean he was I don't know nearly enough about his world but I do know from the sort of race car world
2:09.3	that you occasionally get these specialists come along who do a certain sort of thing better than anybody else.
2:15.5	I mean the example I can give is when Steve McQueen was filming the Lamont movie in 1970 and basically he had the greatest drivers in the world
2:24.8	because they just stayed on after the race for months to record the film but when they
2:30.9	needed a shot or someone skidding a 512 S or a 917 they all went Natar
2:36.0	And they went and got a bloke called Rob Slotted Maca who was just a a drift specialist. He was an ace and you know and he was better at that sort of thing than anybody else
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