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Ottawa, Ontario - You could say that the hatchback's most recent upward march in status culminated in Audi's first importing its four-door A3 hatch here in 2006.

After all, a cadre of nicely-equipped cars like the Mazda Protege5, Ford Focus ZX5 and Hyundai Elantra GT helped make hatches cool in 2002. Compared to those cars, however, the A3 was a whole different animal: the first of the modern hatches from a... // CanadianDriver