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Just to add a bit to this.
We recently sold our Citroen C2VTS which had the 1.6HDi engine but in 110hp guise.
Yes it went well enough having oodles of torque but in standard tune until you got to about 1700rpm when it all kicked off.
There's two reasons we often wondered if we'd bought the wrong car, one the damned thing had a timebomb DPF and two the stiffening of the suspension and upping of the brakes to 'cope'.
IMO the suspension was far too hard and led eventually to the car being sold on, together with the road noise the oversized elastic band tyres was unbelievable and that was after my efforts to soundproof which halved the original din, on a billard smooth road with roundabouts or sharp bends etc you'd be hard pressed to find a normal car that could stay with it, but finding a smooth road in Northants is an impossible task and that rock hard suspension had you constantly correcting the car as it leapt from pot hole to patchwork repair. This wasn't felt so bad on test drive because it was driven in another county our fault that.
On rough roads i can make better progess in our Outlander or my 17 year old MB, my son found exactly the same with his wifes Panda 100hp which is now sold too, on undulating roads he was always fighting the thing where their CRV just goes where he points it without any drama, as does his Jag S type which is now his workaday car.
We did wonder several times whether we would have been better off getting the C2 1.4 Diesel (no DPF) and having it remapped, almost as much power, softer suspension and brakes that were not so overservoed and so overpowering for the light little car that they'd nearly put you through the screen.
The VTS was a superb little car in some ways but with several serious design faults i won't bore you with here, the only thing we miss about it is the mid range power and the £30 VED and reasonable but not brilliant economy if you use the power, otherwise we're glad to see the back of it.
This overlong, sorry, post is to say that the more powerful engine option isn't always the best option when you are forced to take unwanted baggage that goes with it.
Pork Pie's 1.4 if remapped might well turn out to be a good choice, he won't know what the insurers think about that until he puts some details into one of the comparison sites.
Warranty issues, well its quite possible a remap could go undetected by the main dealer though they could inadvertantly wipe it, but something like a Steinbauer tuning box wired in quietly could be removed before a main dealer visit if one were so inclined, not as i'd suggest such a thing...;)
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