Had chance to drive a new GP. It was really neat. A guy in town has one, along with a 2011 fJCW, 2004 JCW, and many other nice cars I would like to have. For street use it felt the same as my JCW with the JCW suspension. I was expecting it to be flatter on hard braking but it's the same. My car with carbotech AX6 pads had more aggressive braking. I can't imagine what it would be like to put a better pad on the GP`s huge brakes. Acceleration was not noticeably different.

It was not too loud on the inside like others have said. All in all it has satisfied my curiosity and I can stop wondering if I needed to trade up.