Wow!!!
I trawled through this thread hoping that someone would have put a youtube link to the 5th Gear show or something, and have read some amount of twaddle instead!
Its amazing how someone can get so wound up by people not saying the same things as them about a car that they 'may' buy one day! Personally I
did own an ED30 which was written off fairly recently, and am in the market for a new car. I test drove a mk6 GTI, but it didnt really appeal much to me. The car looks nice, the interior seems to be better quality (although its cheaper to make?!), but it didn't seem to have the same power or fun to drive. I'd rather get something that was a progressive step forward from my ED30, and I don't really feel the mk6 is 'much' of a step forward. I did love the reverse camera though!!!
Scirocco R for me
Hopefully a good bit quicker, more aggressively styled, and probably not THAT much more cash than a decently specced mk6 GTI.