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yeah, by all means drive a "hot hatch" at an advanced age but for the love of god make it one that has decent build qualities and is money well spent.
as a current owner, i object to the audi s3 being called a hot hatch, it's far more refined than that! it's as jekyll and hyde as the bigger rs- versions and i'm still totally stunned at just how much car i've got for my money with it. one minute i'm driving a nice stable long distance car, the next i've just done 90mph round a challenging corner and it didn't bat an eyelid. sometimes i wish it wasn't quite so keen to tell me exactly what was going on on the road surface (particularly on the a14) but it's a small complaint.
on the other hand i've had a clio 172 and it's somewhere between a trackday car and a sunday car for a bit of fun on a budget. there's no way you can just sit back on a motorway, engage cruise control and just enjoy the drive because it's all involving, all the time.
for me, a grown-up "hot hatch" is one that you can rag senseless and have a really rewarding driving experience from, and then just have a nice normal comfortable drive in too.
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