What is the fun in buying a car that is already hooked up? None whatsoever. It is for the love of the hobby. Plus it is for the sleeper look. No one would suspect the 4 door sedan to be quick without the SVT badge on the back. Just ask some people that were on Gingerman at SZ. No one believed my car was a Zetec because I was passing SVTs. And it didn't sound like one. It is all about the love even if you have an ATX.
What's the FUN in buying a car that is already hooked up? The FUN, is... It's funner to run 12 sec quarters when you start out with a car that has the potential to do it without making you go broke. It would take literally THOUSANDS more dollars to get an MTX L4 (banger) to reliably run 12 sec 1/4s without always breaking something. Simple as that. I just wouldn't spend thousands to go from a 17 down to a 15.9.
And I wonder what that stock GTX Grand-Am owner is thinking as he blows past both the Zetec and the 4 door with the SVT badge. But I DO see your point about for the fun of the hobby though. You ARE onto something there
