Well, after visiting nearly every dealer in Sussex lol, driving all of the cars on my list, I have finally settled on a car. I miss 'owning' a car so didn't want to lease this one and I wanted something that I can keep and that would truly replace my old Hawk and hopefully give me the same pleasure that did.
As some of you know, I nearly bought my old Hawk back, but decided it was now older and had a lot more miles on it, so it wouldn't be the same. Then I nearly bought a Fozzy. Then after all that I decided I still want new or nearly new.
The shortlist in the end was:
Civic Type R
Love the looks, very impressive to drive and to be fair felt like more than the 306BHP it puts out. Front wheel drive let it down. Great in the dry buy spins up in third in the wet. And then there is a new civic out early next year so putting my money into the old one wasn't wise.
Golf R (Manual).
We run a DSG Golf R at work. Cracking car and does everything you want it to. It just didn't make me Fizz!.
Subaru WRX STI
Still something about these. I know the design is older but it still has that something about it to drive, has character and felt a bit different to the others, which I liked. This was the way I was going until.....
I wasn't even going to drive one as I knew the waiting list was up to a year. I still popped into Ford and as luck would have it they had just had another allocation and due for delivery in March.
I didn't go for blue, but Magnetic Grey (same as below but clean!)
Stunning to drive. I think as Scott said in his review of it, you don't get the shuv in the back of the scoobs as the power deliver is smooth, but god it goes and the handling is awesome. Plus it has the childish (track) mode that makes it pop and bang!.
Part of me is a bit sad its not a scoob, but as an all round car for me, its perfect. I'll be bringing it to meets if I'm allowed!.