Hot 4cyl turbo cars got some serious things going for them. The best car Chevy ever made IMHO was the Cobalt Sedan SS. It crushed the coupe model in so many ways. The thing was front wheel drive and handled like a RWD car, got good mileage, made great power with the boost coming on at 1800rpm thanks to a twin scroll turbo that was perfectly sized. Then there was the sodium filled exhaust valves, nuts tough transmission, launch control that was built for slicks, ESC and ABS that I enjoyed leaving on instead of disabling out of the box, Autometer boost gauge on the A-pillar, nice interior trim, no-lift shift, the aforementioned twin scroll turbo, super reliable, FAT brakes... The only thing that was not awesome was it would eat a set of control arm bushings every 50K miles, for as the entry price for never being able to get it to be anything but neutral in turns it was a small price to pay. The Mazdaspeed 3's seem to be a pretty slickly set up ride.