booyah! i see you brought your little buddies to stick up for the pos Neon.
I wouldn't tell my friends an SRT-4 could whoop my Jetta's ass, because I don't have a Jetta. My point is not defending the Jetta, its simply to say that the SRT-4 is still a piece of crap.
If you want to say "hey it's cheap and fast" whoopty doo, i could get $7000 and build a 220hp 2400lb GTI without a turbo... even more power if i went with a turbo.
As for my saying that American cars are crap, I stand by that. Americans couldn't engineer their way out of a wet paper sack.