The reason I brought up warranties, refinement, interior, etc was explained (to you particularly) several posts back when another member turned the direct of the thread and defined the Mach one as the “better built machine”. To me that’s nothing more than a blanked statement that should encompass all aspects of the vehicle, not just the ones viewed from a performance standpoint. As such, I thought it only fair to point out all of the two competing cars competing points, not just pitting the two against one and other from a strait line acceleration perspective and declaring one car an over all winner based on just that comparison alone!
I guess it all depends on the level of performance you want or deem acceptable. You don't "have" to mod either car at all if sports car like performance right out of the gate is what you're after. Either car is capable of matching the top 20% of the cars on the road today in all of the performance fields.
Building the engine, porting the heads, tweaking the
suspension and adding forced induction is by no stretch of the imagination "logic" as you choose to describe it. It stems from a desire to exceed the factory performance. Not from the standpoint of a need, but from a desire, or a want. Anytime you deviate from the factory plan logic goes flying out the window and priorities take over.