Not sure about what the P1s have compared to the Type Rs, but the Jap cars are usually better equiped than the UK models!

I had a UK car though, loved it for what it was. Drove it between Lanark and Aberdeen a good few times, in snow and shitty cold weather and it never batted an eyelid the whole year and a half I owned it. Was brilliant. Only thing I would be concerned about with a Classic Scoob would be the drivetrain, which is notoriously soft, but I just avoided launching mine in the dry.

Newage Stis have the opposite: their standard diffs, gearbox, etc, are almost over-engineered, and seem to be good for around 500bhp from what I've heard.