The thing that needs remembering here is that scooby being japanese is engineered for a purpose - as a road car, not wildly over-engineered like the cossie (good for us of course) Therefore comparisons in modified form are unrealistic, the cossie has much more scope within sensible budgets in that respect.

In standard form though, out of the box, the scoob (more so STi) is a better package than a Saph in most respects. Anyone who can't appreciate this has their head up their Ford tinted arse IMO...