Steve,

I'm just trying to reconcile your statements '..I do like a bit of acceleration...' and  '..still a need for speed' with the fact you owned an Audi TT and Porche Boxter? If I remember rightly the former was always covered with seagull crap (or at least the chrome filler cap) and you never got the roof down (or then up) on the latter ;-)

BTW the Kia is still going strong, 11 years old, 111,000 miles on the clock all on a 1.1l engine.