Look, my son loves Stangs more than any other car out there, but he knows that my GN will whip "his" car (the '68) any day of the week. He's not a Ford guy, in fact the only Ford he really likes is the Mustang. He'd got a "crush" on some rice burners however; I'll need to slap that out of him, possibly with a Corvette or something with a Hemi. I've decided to sell most of my airplanes and get into cars more, so I might pick up a Nova or Fox body, maybe even an F-Body, and stuff with with (if a Ford) a 427 Windsor stroker or (if a Nova) pop in a nice 600cid plus SC'd monster or (if an F-body) stroke it to 383, supercharge it, and possibly run nitrous, although I had a few bad experiences with it in my earlier years while working on the Unlimited Hydroplane for Harrah's. But that car would be barely street legal.
I guess I'm rambling.
My point is that the "perfect" car is not a 2.5l 4 cylinder screamer pulling 50 inches of manifold pressure (which is nothing, really; the Tahoe Miss we built had a 1200cid V12 with ADI, anti detonation injection or water injection, a P-38 lightning turbocharger which was approx. 18" wide and a roots supercharger. We pulled approximately 120 inches of manifold pressure once, right before we blew a jug 1/4 mile across the lake), nor is it a 700cid hydrazine breathing hemi headed monster. You need a bit of both to succeed, and the TR does that. It has the torque capability of a 350 and the horsepower advantage of a blower at 15 to 25 inches of manifold pressure.
It's not really fair to say that someone can't run nitrous because it didn't come from the factory that way. In a run what ya brung race, there are no rules. On the other hand, it's not fair to ask a TR owner to pull his/her turbo off. We'd melt holes in our hoods in about 30 mins due to the exhaust pointing upwards, and that wouldn't be very fun.