Three years later and I still have the yellow submarine.
Sadly my wife uses it as a daily and I have had several other cars in between. Most notably a 3.2 V6 Mercedes CLK.
Now I have will be commuting to a new job, so I have bought myself a SEAT Exeo TDI, which so far is good.
It still isn't the Leon, but I can drive that whenever I want so it is all good!