Tis a shame that some (not all my any means) "R" owners think that anything less than an R is peasant fodder.
Wonder what the people that drive "proper" sport cars (thinking the exotica supercars etc) think of "R" owners - wannabees !!
There's nearly always someone who drives something faster.
For instance, my 2 nephews own their own very successful business called "Tuning Developments", and they specialize in tuning mainly Japanese cars of varying vintages and their forte's are Toyota's They have a number of "demo"cars including a track only Celica GT4 heavily modified with just under 900hp, a modified GT84 with just under 500hp and their sleeper (and every day car), a battered up old Toyota Corolla, with an engine and running gear transplant from a GT4 running just under 450hp but in a car weighing nothing. this thing eats Porsche's and BMW M cars for breakfast and the look on the drivers faces when an old Corolla blast past them from the lights is most amusing. Like I said, there's nearly always something faster.
In any case, whilst I am sure there are nutters driving GTD balls out, there's a far share of GTI and especially R owners doing the same thing. There's one that lives near me that's had his Lapis Blue R for about 18 months now, but has been parked up for nearly 6 months. Reason being he's banned. He was a constant tool and an annoyance in our area as we have a dual carriage way near us, but it's 30mph only, reason being it's a built up area and there are 2 primary schools along it's 1½ mile length and a number of pre-school nurseries, as well as an old peoples home. He was constantly seem hammering his "R" up it at ridiculous speeds, and was finally caught last autumn when the Police had a campaign to catch speeding drivers and (from what I heard form a good friend that knows him), was caught and banned for doing 86mph in a 30 zone !!!
See, it's not just GTD owners.....now don't get me started on Audi and BMW drivers...