Fundamentally good cars really, and great value for money.

Dont worry about convoys to ford fair, you can go to jap events in a convoy of scoobies instead, just bear in mind what a large % of the owners are tossers

"All the gear and no idea" seems to be the fairly accurate stereotype of a scooby owner, very few of them know anything about cars, certainly not the way the average cossie owner does.