The FF layout, however, is common in sport compacts and hot hatches, and cars in general ( excepting sports cars ).

Performance modifications of regular, production cars, such as sport compacts, sports sedans, muscle cars, hot hatches and the like, generally are not considered sports cars, yet share traits common to sports cars.

The cars have filled many market segments, from basic personal cars, to high-performance hot hatches.

Front-mounted petrol engines, together with front-wheel drive, is the most common powertrain layout, although diesel-powered, four-wheel drive and electric-petrol hybrid hot hatches are also available.

Within the United States, hot hatches are classified along with saloons and small coupes as sport compacts and elsewhere the term sport sedan is often used.

Some sports cars are hatchback in form, but as they are not upgraded small family cars, they are not classified as hot hatches.

Cars such as the Porsche 928, Porsche Panamera, Reliant Scimitar GTE and Ferrari FF have not been classified in print as hot hatches.

Other mid 1980s hot hatches included the Citroën AX Sport / GT, Daihatsu Charade GTti, Fiat Uno Turbo i. e ( European ) / SR 1. 6 ( Brazil ), Ford Escort XR3 and XR3i, Mitsubishi Colt 1600 Turbo, MG Metro, MG Maestro, Opel Corsa / Vauxhall Nova SR / GT / GSi / GTE, Opel Kadett / Vauxhall Astra GT / SRi / GSi / GTE.

From the 1990s, the choice of hot hatches widened, with most examples still from the European motor manufacturers, with the Japanese makers making an impact too, and were primarily destined for European markets.

Most hot hatches continued to still be of European origin, with competitive models principally from France, Italy and Germany.

Outside of Europe, Japan is a major exporter of hot hatches.

Several hot hatches are exported to Australia and North America where they compete with local sport compact models.

Examples of post-2000 hot hatches include the Alfa Romeo 147 GTA and Mito GTA, Citroën DS3 Racing, Abarth Grande Punto, Ford Focus ST and RS, MG ZR and ZS, Mini Cooper and John Cooper Works, Opel / Vauxhall Astra SRi Turbo, OPC and VXR, Peugeot 207 GTi, Renault Clio RS 2. 0 / V6, Renault Mégane Renault Sport, SEAT León Cupra and FR, Volkswagen Golf GTI and R models.

More recent American hot hatches include the 2002 Ford Focus SVT with, 2007 Dodge Caliber SRT-4 and 2012 Chevrolet Sonic RS.

More recently hot hatches in Australia have included the Ford Focus XR5 and HSV Astra VXR.

Warm hatches can be expected to have more muted styling features than their hot hatch cousins, they will often lack items such as front splitters and racing style bucket seats.

Whilst having improved performance, warm hatches are less powerful than the hot hatch version of the car, typically more than, but less than such as the Mini Cooper, Peugeot 207 GT Suzuki Swift Sport, and Toyota Yaris SR.

Respected motoring journalists consistently rate the Williams as one of the very best hot hatches ever made, regardless of era.

High-performance versions, called hot hatches or sport compact sedans, may have turbocharged 2. 0 or 2. 5-litre engines, or even V6 3. 2-litre units, ranging maximum outputs from to.

In November 2009, Renault announced that it would be reviving the Gordini name for an exclusive line of hot hatches, in a similar fashion to Fiat's revival of its Abarth name.

The 1100s transmission configuration was revolutionary in that it was transverse and axial with the engine giving the " engine on one side, transmission on the other " layout copied on almost all hot hatches and front wheel drive vehicles throughout the world ever since.

Evo is a British automobile magazine dedicated to performance cars, from hot hatches to supercars.

The next morning, before full control had been gained, satellite photographs, especially infrared ( heat-sensing ) photographs, were provided with the help of NASA Ames Research Center's Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team ( DART ) to aid firefighters in plotting the extent of the fire and spotting hidden hot spots.

The term hot hatch gained widespread use during the 1980s in the UK, first as ' hot hatchback ' by 1983 and then shortened to ' hot hatch ' in the motoring press in 1984, and first appeared in The Times in 1985, and is now commonly and widely accepted as a mainstream, if still informal term.

Swan had given also Nijo's corpse Deadpool's regenerative powers ( restoring him to a form of life 5 minutes after his death ), as well as part of his personality, while Nijo also gained Swan's firearms talents, ambition, some of his refined tastes, preferences and biases, and also the bodily scarring and outrage he'd received from Deadpool throwing him face first into a white hot fireplace griddle at his home.

In the electron gun, the free electrons are gained by thermo-emission from a hot metal strap ( or wire ), which are then accelerated and formed into a narrow convergent beam by electric field produced by three electrodes: the electron emitting strap, the cathode, connected to the-pole of the high ( accelerating ) voltage power supply ( 30-200 kV ) and the + H. V.

He gained a reputation as a hot trumpet man in the early 1920s.

In recent years, hot spring spas and resorts on Taiwan have gained more popularity.

The city of Glenwood, founded by Charles C. Martin in 1851, gained notoriety for hot springs in the area.

In 2006, The Heart Throbs gained a great deal of fan reaction and began entertaining the crowd by bringing two " hot chicks " into the ring and getting them to dance.

The restaurant gained notoriety by its mention in several M * A * S * H episodes and is famous for its signature sandwich and large collection of hot dog buns signed by celebrities.

After the war, he produced aluminum racing cylinder heads, in addition to manifolds, which quickly gained him notability among hot rodding hobbyists.

We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.

Southern California gasped and blinked under an autumn hot spell, drier, more enervating, more laden with man's contrived impurities than the worst days of the summer past.

Kate drew more and more on her affection for Joel through the hot days of summer work.

Restaurants specializing in Cantonese, Sichuanese, Hunanese, Northern Chinese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong traditions are widely available, as are more specialized restaurants such as seafood restaurants, Hong Kong-style diners and cafes ( also known as Cha chaan teng ( 茶餐廳 chácāntīng )), dim sum teahouses, and hot pot restaurants.

More recently, hot fusions pathways to bohrium have been re-investigated in order to allow for the synthesis of more long-lived, neutron rich isotopes to allow a first chemical study of bohrium.

A Discourse of Sallets: " Sellery, apium Italicum, ( and of the Petroseline Family ) was formerly a stranger with us ( nor very long since in Italy ) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley or Smallage ... and for its high and grateful Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board ".

Xylophagous, known locally as Tzitzikia, make a distinctive repetitive tzi tzi noise that becomes louder and more frequent on hot summer days.

Their common feature is the incorporation of more or less complex combinations of spices and / or herbs, usually ( but not invariably ) including fresh or dried hot chillies.

Heated electrodes or hot cathodes, frequently called filaments, are much more common.

A smaller population ( the ' hot population ') is characterised by highly inclined, more eccentric orbits.

The ' hot ' and ' cold ' populations are strikingly different: more than 30 % of all cubewanos are in low inclination, near-circular orbits.

The difference in colour between the red cold population and more heterogeneous hot population was observed as early as in 2002.

Here, the condensate continues to be heated by the rising hot vapors ; it vaporizes once more.

Some brands of rosin, such as Pop's double bass rosin, are softer and more prone to melting in hot weather.

The issue of staff training was one of hot debate in the navy, with some such as Fisher seeing no point in more training, while others such as Beresford supported the development of a formal naval staff.

The Pacific lowlands are uniformly hot and humid ; the central plateau and mountain areas are more moderate.

But eventually more planets of other sorts were found, and it is now clear that hot Jupiters are a minority of exoplanets.

Other local delicacies are the praline chocolates from local producers such as Leonidas and Dascalides, the ' neuzekes ' (' noses '), cone-shaped purple jelly-filled candies, ' babeluten ' (' babblers '), hard butterscotch-like candy, and of course, on the more fiery side, the famous ' Tierenteyn ', a hot but refined mustard that has some affinity to French ' Dijon ' mustard.

Other herbs and spices, such as basil, sage, oregano, and hot chili peppers, have become more popular in recent times.

Geysers differ from non-eruptive hot springs in their subterranean structure ; many consist of a small vent at the surface connected to one or more narrow tubes that lead to underground reservoirs of water and pressure tight rock.

Hot shoeing can be more time-consuming, and requires the farrier to have access to a forge ; however, it usually provides a better fit, as the mark made on the hoof from the hot shoe can show how even it lies.

However, more than a century before Ebbinghaus, Johann Andreas Segner invented the “ Segner-wheel ” to see the length of after-images by seeing how fast a wheel with a hot coal attached had to move for the red ember circle from the coal to appear complete.

Then hot smoked ( hung over a hot, smokey fire but out of direct heat ) to preserve it more.