One of my cousins sold his VR6 recently -he now has a 172 Cup

. It sounded superb, but as someone else has said, was very heavy on petrol.
His brother now has a Mk IV GT TDI 150 (he's had about a million billion cars, including quite a few Golfs). He's put the anniversary body kit on it and VW 17s and it looks fantastic! He reckons its about as fast as his old remapped petrol GTI Turbo, although understandably the power delivery is totally different. He's planning on getting that remapped at some point and with the comments made on here about remapped TDIs I'm interested to experience the results.