Wading in late here,
My daily is a golf R and yes it's powerful, it's fast, it's fun off the line and can embarrass much more exotic machinery (to 60/80 at best).
You can throw it into a corner and know the car will save your ass with the ridiculous grip and Deep Blue stored under the bonnet.
As with all these new hot hatches, the R can be fun, if you're wanting GTR esque performance and ton of computers to save your life if you do something silly, automatic this, assisted that.
Whilst it may be much faster than the Z it's not as satisfying and fun as the Z with it's lack of assists and gadgets.