And I have no intentions of sinking a ridiculous amount of money into performance parts.

I think you're missing the point. I also have no intention of sinking ridiculous amounts of money into performance parts, but I'm about a million times more likely to do that than to sink any amount of money into pseudo-performance parts (like spoilers on a stock Civic), misused performance parts (like a big exhaust on a stock Civic), or flash (like stickers and body kits). People seem to make these modifications to their cars solely to make the car appear as if it's souped-up without actually doing anything to actually make the car ``faster''. In other words, pretty much the definition of poseur.