Slight correction. I've given formal lessons at a rally school. I suppose you could call that a track, but we usually call it a course.
The Neon was a fun car to drive, with no pretenses. You could get the sport model or a few other models and they were good sport value for the money.
They had the shittiest interiors on the planet - but they had great performance characteristics if you bought the right models. I would definitely consider buying a well-preserved Neon.
I was oh so close! Still the sentiment was correct, you are a better driver!
You might be one of only a few people who would collect one of those Neons to save for the future. I would think.
For some reason I just remembered I used to drive an Eagle LoL That wasn't that long ago. That brand has been all but forgotten, do you have any of those?
The Eagle Talon was a pretty cool car in its day. I had the AMC Eagle - which was a station wagon with the underpinnings of a Jeep. That was a pretty awesome car - and it had a not-too-shitty interior, complete with leather seats. The dash was still cheap plastic, but it was tolerable.
I suspect there are a few Neons out there that have been saved, but not very many. They were cheap cars. There was an SRT-(?) model with something like 250ish horsepower. They were (some of them) pretty sporty for the era. They were also cheap as fuck. The highest model was like 20k - in mid 2000s. So. yeah... 20k for a 250ish HP Neon was a pretty good performance data per dollar spent.
The Eagle Talon was OK, I had the Eagle Vision and it had a pretty decent interior. Way better than GM and Ford cars comparable had at the time.
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