With R Compound tires you'd be surprised what a neon can out handle, let alone in the hands of a professional rally driver.
People tend to forget the Neon's started by out handling many top cars in circuit tracks back in the mid 90's, like the Integra Typre-R and the Miatas.....let alone other cars like the M3's....... 
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Mods: AGP GT3076R DBB Turbo
"The Cobalt firmly grabs you and whisks you along your way instantly. It does so with authority and poise, but while slipping relatively unnoticed through traffic, never being violent, or dare I say it, frightening. When you ask the SRT-4 to take you somewhere fast, it punches you in the face, throws you over its shoulder, and runs, screaming, so quickly that its tires can barely keep up."
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