I'm actually going to reply to the thread and atleast give joe what he wants! Its not a technical review but my experience.
The gf had a mcs jcw before my old car was passed to her. Last summer I drove to newquay in it and I also did a bit of A-B driving in it. First the one we has was high spec, touch screen nab/radio, aux in, cruise control, xenons, retrofitted leather. There wasn't much plastic but what there was wasn't too much of an issue. The layout was the hardest thing to get use to. The newquay journey was fun. The JCW being the Ed30 of the golf world, it had more power than the s. It was rapid. It would beat a stock gti and dare i say a mapped stage 1 gti aswell. The cars soooo light which obviously helps. The handling was good and whatever I did to it, she stuck to the road. We did have aftermarket tyres but no other mods. Acceleration was good and good throughout the range. To give an example, you could be at 70 and push the accelerator a bit and your at 100 before you know it.
Inside the front two seats are fine and on my trip I had no issues. The boot is small but can fit a large black military deployment bag easily (I've tried it!). Taking passengers in the rear maybe the only downer.
People say they are all girls cars. Well yes and no. A nice jcw looks awesome. We had a black one with tints and it looked stunning regardess of who drove. You can get jcws mapped and increase performance - some are pushing just over 300bhp! The only problem I've heard about is the engine overheating and melting the front air intake but a cooler should resolve that.
There is definately more to it but I dont know what else to say! Any questions I guess?
