I'll probably get a troutslap for this posting, but I don't think it matters all that much. Unless your dragging someone and you say your car is a svt and get smoked, etc.
Alot of smack talk, it is all show and the guy's so full of bs their eyes turn brown...you get the point. put up or shut up, in my words.
I have a svt front clip on my 1999 SE, because my wife wrecked my car, and it happened to be the color I needed, was in nice shape, and I got it for less money than i was going to pay for a diffent colored one I was going to have to paint.
Now, in the case of when in high school I had my 1988 GLS tempo 5 speed, with a mercury hood, a full custom dual exhaust on the 2.3, hand fabbed headers,lowered 4 inches, modded suspension and a wacked out paint job with custom bumpers, and fenders with "5.0" badges on the fenders, well, I was plain nuts when I did that. But, I still was able to have fun with it and smoke my share of stuff with it, after all who in the heck expected a Tempo?!? LOL
Fun part was, more than once, with the rims/tires I had, people thought I was running a 5.0...