Doesn't sound odd to me, Steve.
If they made a GTI Club Sport, R26-R style whorebag, I'd buy it at ANY cost. I wouldn't mind if it was 2WD, I wouldn't mind if it was 207BHP...
That's the GTI I want to buy and I'd step over that R to get to it. But that's never going to happen and I like what the R is doing.