Ah, now here is where the joys of age come in
A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, the god of cars said "let there be the Golf GTi" and there was the Golf and the Golf was good. And then as the people took up the word of the Golf there came to pass the term "hot hatch" and this was a corruption of the true word and the word was synonymous with being driven by boy racers. Now key charateristics of these tended to be darkened windows, big spoilers, big chrome exhaust pipes, big wheels and sometimes lowered.
Now the cars were superb and all other car maufacturers saw the car and saw that the car was good and they rejoiced in it and made images of it and verily they copied it and made craven images of it with big wheels, big spoilers etc. And so it was that the era of the hot hatch was born.
And so it was in the land that people lived and worked and car manufacturers developed these cars and they became fat and heavy and burdened with extras and the true word was forgotten and the god of cars was sad.
So the God of cars looked down upon the earth once more and he was sad as the true Golf had lost much of its fun and so it was that God recreated that which was good in the Golf mk1 once more and he called it the Golf mk5 but with bigger engines and more safety features. And the people rejoiced for the Golf was good once more.
Now for those of us who can remember back to those halcion days, a lot of what is standard in the cars now is what made the original golf into a hot hatch and boy racer mobile. It is not a bad thing, it just puts a grin on the face that it has that little bit of irony.