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I've just put a deposit down on one, so I'll be able to update you on reliability in a few months (to some degree). Funny actually as my first choice was a Clio 182 but couldn't find any unmodified ones for sale.
Rather stupidly this will be the first car I've ever owned, but as a life long petrolhead that only got their driving license earlier this year I thought fuck it, may as well start as I mean to go on. Insurance quotes for 1.0 Yaris and the like were coming out at £1250, and an R53 S was only a few hundred more annually.
The research I've done has told me that if you have some experience of working on your own cars you could in theory do the big supercharger service (at 100k mi) yourself, and save the £700 approx it will cost at a garage.