Honestly, and there is no escaping this.
If you want fwd
If you want neon styling
If you want the "safer" feeling of going with a "newer" car that has the potential to hit decent numbers with a good driver.
then hit up the srt4

But the whole "CHEAP PERFORMANCE" thing has been wrung dry by srt-4 enthusiasts. This is far from cheap performance if you considered how cheap an older used car with a completely built engine would be.

With fwd you'll be experiencing hearty understeer depending on how hard you're pushing, so essentially you would own a decently fast straight line car.
I am personally sick of meeting idiotic srt-4 owners who happen to take on that "Fast and Furious" persona. Dodge shot advertising right at ignorant teenagers and it worked well, although some people here and there have gone on to build sick machines out of them.

I hope neither you nor anyone else has bought the srt-4 because it appears to be the "best deal/bang for the buck". Look at how easy it is to build a domestic V8, or if you really had a hard on for the turbo fwd thing then look at gst's or building a turbo teg. vr-4's are still pulling 13.5 runs with high mileage, awd and a VAST array of luxury options. sure not the most appealing couple of ideas but compared to a turbo neon, c'mon. there are old 300zx tt's and 240's that can be found for dirt and built to run 12's for near half of what the price tag of the srt-4 is. If you have some bias towards old cars then thats just fine with me, but don't go using bang for buck if thats really not the case.

Its amusing to see when people think an engine has died that it is gone forever, I too used to think this way. Really, we have the technology, we can rebuild it. Stronger, faster, better and still blowing ice cold ac in the warm florida heat.