Aston Martin DBF Is the Hot Hatch the British Company Needs to Compete with Mercedes

All three premium German manufacturers offer hot hatchbacks that more or less redefined the word “amazing” over the past three years. The Audi RS3 has the perfect 2.5-liter soundtrack; the BMW M135i performs RWD shenanigans and the Mercedes A45… well, it’s very fast. Out of these three companies, it’s Mercedes-AMG that rewrote the book. Before models like the A45 and CLA45, there were no 4-cylinder e…