Why take pride in a dime a dozen car anyway? Especially a car 40 year olds buy because they DON'T care about performance in the first place?
If I attach a turbo to the shit that hangs from my asshole ......well.....it's still shit.
If you want to spend $20,000 on a family car then turbo it to run decent times.....start with a $1000 K car and do a turbo 2.2 swap. Oh wait, it's American, it sucks..........