I think it comes down to the personality of the owner. It is hard to ask someone how serious they are about autocross, road course, 1/4 mile or standing mile, because everyone everyone has a different definition of serious, or what is involved in having fun. For Todd and I, having fun is building something that drives well enough to exceed the level of skill of the idiot behind the wheel. After doing this for a few years, I'm not having a ton of fun if I'm trying to fight my car to get it to work. I don't care about winning so much as I do getting the most out of my car with what I have on any given day. I often decide that I want to go faster though. For some people it isn't so much an issue of how well it handles and is more a function of just getting seat time. I wish I was one of those people. It would be much cheaper.
If I were building this car my only concern would be creating a car with so many compromises that I would get frustrated with it when it couldn't function quite the way I wanted it to in one area because of something I did elsewhere. It is hard to tell what is going to bug, and what you can't live without until you're on the road.
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