maybe wit faster cars, but i never seen a fast car that wasnt a muscle car, i go to the drag strip just to watch the muscle cars, but between me n my moms car, i used to have a 95 2.0L SOHC Neon auto n she has a 99 Saturn SL1 1.9L SOHC 5-speed, i do notice that her car off the line is faster but gettin up to speed my neon witout a doubt was faster gettin up to speed even wit the lil wheel hop i get off the line wit the neon, i might b able to get up to speed a lil fast wit the saturn is i just didnt use the clutch n just throw it into gear but since its not my car i dont wanna go thru her gears like that...but it does kinda make sense wit that cavalier ur talkin bout, u can get more torque outta the 4 gears u use rather than 2 gears bein used in the powerglide, have u tried gearin the powerglide differently many times? n i kno wit the powerglide if u stay in the first gear too long or too short ull have slower times, i kno alotta pple go n say their pro n all this but wit that adrenaline the shiftin arm tends to get real excited n may wanna shift a lil early....btw im not arguin or tryna start a fight or anythin but just talkin n statin some words