Some car are design for people in mind that don't want a huge vehicle, but still need space to carry large things from place to place, or carry three or four people comfortably around with a full load of groceries. This car is for those people. Anyone who buys this with the idea of going anywhere close to what is considered fast or hugging curves, has some F'ed up ideas of with fast/sporty is.
The civic is a commuter vehicle and fortunatly honda blessed us with engine swaps so even lowly models with a nonvtec d15 has hope. TGFI *thank god for integras
If dodge aimed these at the new driver to 30 age group they are mistaken, neon looks ok, it got better looking as they redesigned it, the SRT-4 is formitable, I am surprised they are planning on replacing it with this?!?! Stupid bad marketing/design.
Sooner or later some mom is going to give their kid this car and we will see it with a huge stereo and neons, it will take a rare breed to be stupid enough to put a wing on it.