This one is for some of the people on here that dont understand what the Williams is all about as there appears to be a few kicking about on this forum at the moment.
This artical is from Perfomance Car 1998 between the following cars for the Ultimate Hot Hatch Champion:
Civic Type-R
205 GTI 1.9
306 GTI 6
R5 GT Turbo
Clio Williams
Golf GTI 16V
"The Williams feels like it was born on the B660; it’s got an answer for every one of its corners, be it bumpy or smooth, fast or slow. The owner of the Clio here hadn’t driven the road before, but at one stage he was glued to my back bumper, and at the time I was wringing the neck of the Civic Type-R, we stopped and I suggested to our Williams owner, Warren, that he ought to experience the 9000rpm frenzy of the Civic. The last five miles before the A1 are my favourite; fast and tricky, a great test. The Golf and 306 are pretty good here, though they are not so keen and pointy in the slow stuff. The Williams is both. Its high-speed poise and body control have a confident, big car feel, and the Civic is soon a white speck in the mirror."
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"The Clio Williams wins. No surprise, really. It has the looks, the power and quite simply the most inspiring handling of any hot hatch; there isn’t another on the planet that makes such light work of tricky corners. It combines the R5’s compliance with the 205’s crispness, and throws in the Golf’s high-speed poise for good measure. It really is the complete item, the Clio: great steering, fine ride, excellent seats, good brakes and handling to die for. It’s a great hot hatch and, best of all; it makes its driver feel great too."
The full artical is on here second from the bottom - there is some other cracking reviews on here too:
http://www.warrender.co.uk/test0013.htmhttp://www.warrender.co.uk/test0013.htm
http://www.warrender.co.uk/test0002
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