"Pound for pound the best front wheel drive performance car we drove last year" There's a 'Best 10 cars' feature. The Focus RS and Megane aren't in it, and are mentioned in the Scirocco article, with the Scirocco clearly on top. The make this judgement on a DSG car though, saying how good it is. Without it, it's not the same.
sounds good, saw a Focus RS on the road the other day in black (i think? was going pretty quick) damn the thing had some road presence. Genuinely, got the same excitement as used to get seeing a cossie fly by
Their words, not mine. They said how fantastic the DSG gearbox is. Still.... you could always modify it up to that spec....