Wotcha car-types.  Rather than pollute ukrm with yet more OT car posts,
I thought I'd better pop over here.  You lot must know what's what.

My A3 has just given me more grief by barely getting me home last night
so I'm seriously thinking of replacing it.  I think it must have been a
Friday afternoon car.  It turned out to need a new coil, which the AA
man did for me whilst I am at work, so it's sorted and cheaply.

However, SWMBO has never liked the car (for girly reasons like "the
doors are too big and heavy") and has given me the go-ahead for a
replacement.  So I'm looking for something along the lines of:

Mid-sized hatch, probably 5 door this time
New or fairly new (up to a year old)
At least as powerful as the current A3 (so 150+bhp)
Petrol
Cruise, climate control, comfortable (so not another A3 in Sport or
S-Line guise).

Originally I was looking to replace this eventually with a A3 Sportback
but a) I'm not sure I want another Audi and b) they spec & age means
I'm looking at the thick end of £20k.  Parkers reckons trade in for
mine is only £6k, and I'm looking to add a max of £10k to change.

Current list of things to go look at and/or test drive are:
Golf MkV or even Mk6 - only the GT and up is powerful enough for what I
want and they just don't really do it for me, but they do get cracking
reviews.
Leon - probably the FR with DSG.  I had an Ecomotive diesel as a hire
car last year and was underpowered but quite nice in other ways.
Civic - haven't looked yet.
Mazda 3 - as Civic

Anything else I should consider?