2007 Mazda 3 MPS from UK and Ireland - Comments

You Golf GTi owners are living in dreamland! It would be a closely run thing between the MPS and an R32, (I reckon) but the bog-standard GTi is so slow in comparison, it is laughable. My MPS is more than a second quicker than your repmobile and that is a FACT. Deal with it.

I love GTI owners, they really make me laugh. The only GTI that's worth a damn is the Edition 30, because thanks to the bigger turbo, a simple remap yields 300bhp. The older GTI (197bhp version) is not a hot hatch. A 0-60 time of over 7 seconds is a joke really. I've only seen 1 Mazda 3 MPS and 2 Mazda 6 MPS's. To anyone who says they've raced loads in they're GTI is lying. Your car has a VW badge - other than that it is outclassed by every hot hatch on the market. My brothers focus ST has torn apart Golf GTI's on 2 occasions. I have absolutely humiliated a Golf GTI once in my Redtop. They aren't fast at all, they have low end torque, that's it. a 3 MPS would... wait for it... DESTROY your little golf, any gear, any revs, any speed. It has 60bhp on you and is lighter... game over. The 3 MPS is the fastest stock FWD hatch at the moment, although watch out for the new Focus RS some time next year, 300bhp FWD with trick diff - bye bye... everything, S3 included!

Thank you for reading!

Oh one last note - to GTI owners - without that badge you're nothing - drive an ST or VXR and find out what FWD fun really is!