The Ford Escape compact SUV joined the Ford lineup — alongside the bigger Explorer, Expedition and now-defunct Excursion — in 2001, as the 1990s SUV craze spilled into the new millennium.

Hot hatches have always been about combining practicality with exhilarating performance, but modern examples often rely on turbocharged efficiency and electronic driver aids to deliver speed.

This isn't the picture of the child who sticks their fingers in their ears, covers their eyes and rambles on and on ... Looking forward to the end seems like an escape hatch. But it is not. It is the ...

Hot hatches have existed since the mid-1970s. Once upon a time, it described a go-faster supermini with a bit more performance; nowadays, the term is somewhat broader, ranging from tiny city cars to ...