Best used hot hatches for less than £2000 (and one to avoid)

So, you fancy a quick car with the fun factor turned up as high as it’ll go, but you also need something that’s small, reasonably practical and cheap to run? You’ll be after a hot hatch, then - no other class of car mixes pulse-racing fun and day-to-day, real-world ability quite like this one. Here we’ve gathered together 10 of the very best, and all with an upper price limit of just £2000. Read on and see if any of these can tempt you.

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