Sure, you can make a rice burner fast, but why? My car is all stock and I plan to keep it that way instead of turning it into a grenade on wheels. It gets me around town and uses less gas than my truck, that's all I need it for. I bet mine still takes that little noise maker off the line, handles better, and best of all, it's not a Neon! But then again I shouldn't hate, my grandma had a Neon and she liked it so they can't be all that bad.
I'll take a Mustang with a twin screw supercharger any day, I hate front wheel drives. I was really stepping out of my comfort zone when I bought that Probe and I'll probably never buy another front wheel drive car again, to me it's the absolute worst configuration for a performance car, all they want to do is spin the tires and make noise. :
Half my garage is being taken up by my cousin's Camaro right now, 88 Camaro with a built LT1 from a 70 Camaro in it, just waiting for his broke ass to get a real job so we can finish putting it back together. Wanna line 'em up and see how that cute little thing stands against a real car? ;D
And i'm not really "hatin" as you say it, to each his own. The whole tuner scene isn't my style, i'm a country boy through and through, and to see us rolling around in a bunch of imports would just throw the whole world out of balance I think.