although the MSP is not the quickest thing out there and a lot of people classify it as an average grocery getter, there are people who are building this "grocery getter" for different reasons involving auto sports. Whether it is Autocross, Drag, Time Attack or whatever the case may be, the car will be classified by whatever it is used for. A majority of the people on here have this car as their daily driver but at the same time, it satisfies that persons need for speed at any type of track function or back road run. Any car will take money to make it faster, that is a given fact. If someone really wanted to boost a Geo Metro, more power to them. I don't see anything wrong with it especially since there are folks taking VW Beetles to local dragstrips and putting out decent numbers.
Saying that racing an MSP is no better than boosting a Geo Metro is like telling the guy next door who is into "donks" not to lift his Chevy Caprice and put 26" rims on it or not to take his Chevy Silverado and slam it with airbags and 20" rims. The MSP is a performance oriented car otherwise...WHY IS IT TURBOCHARGED? Yes it is a family car especially since it started out in its day as just a regular protege but so is an Evo...STI...hell there's 400+hp civics around here, that's a family car too. Race enthusiasts will dump money into their cars until the end of time. Some just like having a limited edition car with a little pep in its step. I have big plans for my MSP, some may think its a waste of time and money to try to get big numbers or even halfway decent numbers out of the MSP. I plan to, and as long as each person is happy with their cars power, that is all that matters. Then, others opinions don't mean anything. Finally, yes it does take a pretty penny to make reliable power with our cars but you have to pay to play. and most people like the challenge of making power with a platform like the MSP because anybody can just move on to a faster platform. There are several proteges in my area that are NA and they see my car and think I just have a regular protege with a paint job. Then, they start egging me on. Once they hear the turbo spool up or hear the BOV, my car is like a pot of gold. Everyone wants to see it because they have never seen a boosted protege before. It's nice to have something rare for reasons like this.
