It's the new high and I I 30 n hot hatch.

We are at very exclusively and excitingly high end eyes development center at the Nurburgring, and the reason we have all these boxes here is that we're not allowed to show you what's on the other side.

Of the only 30 end comes in two versions, both powered by a two litre turbo driving the front wheels through a six speed manual gearbox.

Standard Car has 247 horsepower for just under 25 grand.

This car is the end performance version, which for three Grand Maur has 271 horsepower.

Bigger 19 inch wheels, stronger breaks, different staring and final drive ratios, a removable brace bar in the boot and a proper, electronically controlled mechanical death.

Out there is the Nurburgring.

I think that'll be our first stop.

62 6.1 seconds.

Top speed, 155 miles an hour.

I should be out there right now, but I'm not because it's an industry pull lap session on.

I can't go on until the tourist lap start in about an hour's time, but this test is not just about driving I 30 n on the Nurburgring because hot hatches don't live on the Nurburgring.

They live in the real world.

So after this, we are going to go and drive it on motorways on country roads, and we're gonna finish up in the mountains.

So two things that strike me about this car early on, one of which is how stiff the chassis is, which is lovely.

It's really feels very tor, precise.

On the other thing is how it actually feels form to do the Oh, so that was really interesting.

I've thoroughly enjoyed taking this onto the Nurburgring because it was developed here, and it's always interesting to see where people have developed cars and drive them where they've been developed.

But they haven't just developed it on the circuit here.

They've developed it all.

All the roads around here they've developed in different countries have developed it on the grass glutton amount in parts where we're going to go tomorrow.

We're on the autobahn way.

I'm not in a bit of de limited auto barn a moment.

There have bean bits, but it's busy because it's just tail end of rush hour.

Now we've been on the road about five hours already.

Way are approaching Munich on.

We've still got 200 miles or so to go down to the brass Globe cars doing really well.

It's very comfortable.

Seats of really good driving position is excellent.

What I particularly like is they made a really point of making sure that the driving position where they had the electric seats on the manual seats is exactly the same.

So the seats no any higher in the electric seat version, which is great, Um, the throttles very steady.

The car's very stable.

It doesn't do anything frightening a tool.

The ride is quite firm.

As I think I mentioned on the Nurburgring yesterday.

It is quite firmly sprung.

It's all a bit of a surprise, but I think that is exactly what happened I was going for.

Even when you're on the motorway, you can feel it being Detective Lee a little bit firm, a little bit different, and I think that's quite encouraging.

Actually, I quite like that.

I like the fact that I find I has decided right now we're not just gonna copy a golf GT, I we're gonna try and be our own thing.

And so it is.

It's quite it's got that inherent.

Sporting this.

Tow it.

If I just press this button here and go into sport mode, you can probably hear noise change.

And also for lift off Pops and Banks, we've encountered a bit of a setback.

That's the grass.

Glaucoma told Booth to get onto the mountain road just over 500 miles across Germany on a LL.

The Red X is tell their own story.

They've closed the past because it's raining here.

It's snowing.

Not much higher up.

We're gonna need a plan B.

Later.

We've managed to go and get some snow chains.

Lady at the desk is a little bit funny.

Go credit card.

I've got snow chains, Please.

She's gonna let us go on.

Hi gross club That is proper whole hatch territory.

And the only 30 end is a problem, or steering has really meet strong front axle breaks.

A great under foot gear changes differential.

Three corners.

There's barely any body roll.

There's even a pseudo anti lack system to keep a turbo spinning and improved criticisms just wrong made of sex that that car could easily handled more than 270 but it's genuinely impressive.

It's got an edge in the sharpness that puts it in the same campus.

The civic type R A new Rennes form again.

Theo.

The thing about the cross Glockner is it's a mega driving road.

It's not just a load of switch bags.

It goes on for miles and miles.

There's very little traffic.

There's a beautiful selection of corners.

Nothing did really, really well.

It's a very interesting car.

It's much sport is and you expect, and it's much better than you expect.

That surprised me a bit.

It's got its very sharp, has got sharp breaks, sharp steering.

OK, a lot of it is all under electronic control, but you get a good feel from the car.

It feels tight and tied down, and it gives you a lot of confidence.

So yesterday evening, when we were driving up and down, and when those conditions were only wet, it felt very planted, very secure and stable.

This morning on the ice, we're not really playing with much.