I'm a junior (11th grade) and I drive a white '89 LX hatch, auto, completely stock except the stereo. The kids at my school have no respect for it, it's generally refered to as the "muscrat". I love the car, and I think with a little money put into it, it could be quciker than alot of what resides in that parking lot. However what resides in the parking lot is fairly exotic, the two fastest cars right now are an '03 E55 AMG Mercedes with a renntech supercharger(11.9 1/4 mi.), and a '07 Subaru WRX STI with about 15k invested into it . Stuff like that is hard to compete with, especially on my budget.