Crikey its like a civil war has broke in the golf gti camp.
Drivers are good, i had one for and only reason why i dnt have it now is coz i got a valver. (well i do still have it but dnt drive it)
I was thinking of putting twin weber 40's on my driver with a gti cam and gti down pipe, but ended up with a valver.
I do think that the driver that i had would of beaten an 8 valve mark 3 of the lights, just felt a bit more lively, top end then obviously the mark 3 would prove to be better.
End of the day we all buy cars for different reasons and get different things out of different cars.
We all have golfs and have different marks because of what we want out of the car itself, so each to their own.