the point you ask? well most/all neon owners were flamed for owning them. far before any srt-4 was intorduced 2.4L turbo into 1st gens was very common but it didnt matter because it was a neon. now that the factory mass produced the same thing it is "cool" to have, no one really flames a srt-4 because it is "not a neon".hey CobraSpdRH im jealous because my friend has an srt-4 and i have a neon? wrong, there the same thing if you were listening. The only way i would drive an sr-4 is if i got it for free, i still like the 1st gen's more than anything. people like saying you got beat by a neon but at any car show they are srt-4's. Also at the last car show that i was at there were probally 5/6 srt-4's and i had the only 1st gen neon. But my point is that even over a few different gen's of neons there are still tons of similarties, but people like to think there nothing alike. To me the factory calls it an srt-4 because in general in the "race" scene neons dont have a good name. Maby they decidd to come up with a new slogan/name for it to get people to chance from the imports to the domestic market and it worked. how many people that now own srt-4's owned a neon before it?