don't worry about the cupholder or your friends tastes in cars, if you buy an RX-8 you have to drive betwen 6k and 9k RPM to make it move and it drinks oil and a crossifre will still beat it away from the lights!
As for the 350 its more of a brute than the crossifre, if you are off into the airforce then this is one topgun car, i Know I've got one