My Mk5 is currently in the dealers for some minor work to be carried out (caused by them in the first place [

!])
Anyway, I have been given a Bora as a replacement - OK it is not as powerful as my diesel, and I guess it does not have the sports suspension. But, and I mean no offence here, it really is a poor car compared to the MK5 - I agree the interior plastics look more upmarket (perhaps), but I am use to that being an ex-passat owner. My main concern is over driving dynamics. It wallows and slides where the MK5 tracks exactly where you want it to to go. Potholes? don't go there, this car seems to actively search them out.
As mentioned above this does seem to be getting a little boring now. The everyday thread slagging off the MK5 compared to the good old MK4 - I had a mk2 GTi (a proper one [

]) as a company car, and i remember when the mk3 came out what a huge slating that car got. I actually cancelled an order at the last minute because it looked so different.
If the GTi was ?15k would we still be slating it - I think perhaps NO. But, VW like it or not have developed a reputation for quality motors, and in the GTi have now got a car that the motoring press are drooling over - This causes a market fever where silly prices will prevail. They will sell every GTi they can get their hands on in the short term, and in a way 'Good luck to em' - The GTi has IMO been dead since the MK2 (ducks for cover[:I]) , and now it is back. Sure it is bigger,heavier, and maybe styling wise a compromise, but VW have to sell these to make money - that means Safety and 'conservative' styling.
Just my little point of view, having not got involved in the mk4 v's mk5 debate in the past........