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Written by Ollie Marriage
Bartholom . Nope, we"d never heard of it either. Nor, I suspect, has anyone who lives much more than a snowball"s flight away. It"s not big, Bartholom . Nor easy to pronounce do you rhyme it with Bartholomew or Barcelona? Or, as the locals insist, some other way entirely that has me thinking our hotel must be miles away, when in fact it turns out to be the lights I can see across the dark, quiet, icy car park? We"re here more by necessity than desire, far enough north that roads are open and roofs coping with their thick rugs of snow. But it looked good on the map: an isolated village on a high plateau surrounded by twisting, sweeping roads, roughly midway between Stuttgart and Ingolstadt. The homes, respectively, of Mercedes and Audi. Neutral territory then, for this head-to-head between the latest small fast things from premium German marques. Hot hatches? I"m not sure that"s the right label, not when one of them is a crossover. Besides, I think both see themselves as a peg above the cut and thrust of Civic Type R, Hyundai i30N and even Golf GTIPhotography: John Wycherley
Date written: 8 Apr 2019
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Bartholom . Nope, we"d never heard of it either. Nor, I suspect, has anyone who lives much more than a snowball"s flight away. It"s not big, Bartholom . Nor easy to pronounce do you rhyme it with Bartholomew or Barcelona? Or, as the locals insist, some other way entirely that has me thinking our hotel must be miles away, when in fact it turns out to be the lights I can see across the dark, quiet, icy car park? We"re here more by necessity than desire, far enough north that roads are open and roofs coping with their thick rugs of snow. But it looked good on the map: an isolated village on a high plateau surrounded by twisting, sweeping roads, roughly midway between Stuttgart and Ingolstadt. The homes, respectively, of Mercedes and Audi. Neutral territory then, for this head-to-head between the latest small fast things from premium German marques. Hot hatches? I"m not sure that"s the right label, not when one of them is a crossover. Besides, I think both see themselves as a peg above the cut and thrust of Civic Type R, Hyundai i30N and even Golf GTIPhotography: John Wycherley
Date written: 8 Apr 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15354