WELCOME and CONGRATS!
I thought that everyone on that side of the pond got the Mk8 starting in 2017 (or did the changeover happen mid-year over there, or did they sell some of the leftover Mk7.5s as '17s??)?
Are you an Irish Tarmac Rally Championship fan at all?
I watch all of the Irish events on you tube, some GREAT stuff, and there should
really be a tarmac round of the WRC held in your country already, on those phenomenal roads you have there!!