Citation de Clarkson https://www.driving.co.uk/car-reviews/the-clarkson-review-audi-s1-2014/ (The Clarkson review: Audi S1 (2014)) :

« Which is the S1’s biggest problem. It isn’t. It’s fast and it’s fun and it’s beautifully made. Audi has even resisted the temptation to make the interior look like a man’s washbag. But it doesn’t put its hands down your trousers and have a fiddle. It’s a bit too clinical and aseptic.

I have much the same problem with two of the Volkswagen Group’s other hot hatches: the Golf R and the Seat Leon Cupra 280. They’re both immense, but they don’t feel thrilling.

The Ford Fiesta ST, on the other hand, just does. It’s not as powerful as the Leon Cupra 280 or the Golf R, but it is ten times more fun. It’d be my choice without a moment’s hesitation.
But I realise, of course, that it wouldn’t be yours. You don’t care how brilliant it is: you are not going to buy a Ford Fiesta because your friends will imagine that your life has taken a turn for the worse. They may even sneer when you tell them what you’ve done.

Which means that if you want a hot hatch, you will have to buy the Golf GTI. Which is no great hardship at all, because it’s fabulous in every way. If, however, you want to drive round in the spiritual successor to the original quattro … Well, then you have to have the Nissan GT-R. »