Maybe some of you guys should read the MM&FF 4-banger shootout from a couple of months ago. SVOs were fairly fast for the day, and with 16-18 years of them being around, people have learned to make them fast with mods. I am lucky enough to own the rarest SVO color, Dark sage green. There were around 9800 SVOs made and only 47 green ones. I have some mods planned and it will shock quite a few people when they see what just smoked them. There is a local shop where my work is done that has an SVO that will run sub 11 1/4's at 130+ mph. Thats pretty impressive considering he has many more mods planned. By the way, he drives it quite a bit to and from work and gets 22-24 mpg. I get 26 mpg with mine. You also have to remember, these cars were made for road racing, not stoplight to stoplight. I would be willing to challenge anybody in almost anything on a curvy track somewhere. They really are amazing cars and I'm glad to see so many people showing interest in them in this thread.. I wish more people would interested in them so more would out on the road.
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