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YouFaceTheTick @ Oct 18th 2007 1:07PM
Looked at both.
Mazdaspeed3 is pbscenely loud, twitchy, doesn't have free service, doesn't have good resale and it's really long and heavy.
GTI is a bit of fun. Very polished but again, expensive maintenance and numb handling/steering mean it's not that much fun. The excessice weight and soft springs make it a nice car but more of a freeway cruiser than a corner-chewing menace. Low resale also hurts my view and it's a VW so I'm leary. Finally we already own a Mrk 5 in the A3 and I won't have two cars with the same platform. i like variety.
Back to back, the MS3 will take out a mini. The mini will munch on a GTI easily. For me it's about fun per mile, having something that can be somewhat adult (the MS3 is hopelessly orange county, like the Civic si) and something I can sell in 2009 for near what I paid. The Cooper gives me all of that - low cost to own, high resale, lots of fun. A good car before we start a family and I'm, stuck going back to a barge like a 335i.