First brand new, showroom fresh car we bought was an EP3 CTR, great car, I never felt it lacked torque as it certainly lacked the stodge that of the Mk4 1.8t it replaced so it all evens itself out. Only thing that I felt let the car down was the feel of the switchgear, they were getting things to look right at this stage but the buttons, indicator stalks, etc, just felt too flimsy in my hands. That and the front seats mechanism not remembering the position when the released for rear seat access, well annoying. Everything felt it was designed to an exact brief, not over engineered and certainly not under, just right.
The earlier cars just look to old granny for me.
