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Ford Escort XR3i

e may have first seen the GTI badge in the mid-1970s, affixed to a Volkswagen Golf, but it’s generally associated with the decade of Tony Hadley and Simon Le Bon. It also paved the way for every major European marque to have its own take on the recipe, which was in truth pretty simple: take your mainstream front-drive hatchback in its largest-engined form and spice it up with a few

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