Horses for courses mate. You drove round in a corsa where as I'd rather bathe in my own vomit! Lol.
Sadly mate when you are staff for a vauxhall magazine, you have to have some vauxhalls, lol.
That said, I love the XE engine anyway and it sounded pretty epic on the throttle bodies with cams, so hateful though the handling was it was worth driving for the noise.
You do realise that there is an orion version of the clio that you could now own?
Its got you written all over it mate