I owned a black saphire '08 -- lowered - exhaust - 20" Forgiato Martellatos... In fact - I blasted it to '07 SEMA and back along with my buddies black saphire M6... We hammered them hard on every back road between Seattle and LV... Not a bad road car... but...
I H A T E D that car... gutless POS around town... herky jerky transmission... no way to drive it "nice" at slow speeds. The gutless part was the worst...
If you could blast it to 8250 on every shift... it was "okay" -- but a complete lack of torque. I'll take torque over HP numbers any day. I was happy to see it go - at about a 40K loss. Oh -- did I mention they don't hold their resale value either?? LOL