From a first car standpoint, I'd say stick with the 09 SES over an SVT. Granted, the SVTs look nice, but even an 04 SVT is coming on 5-6 years old. Performance wise, the SVT will be faster, but the new ones are no slouches. And with most of the mods you will do to it if you hang around this website long enough (suspension, intake, exhaust, etc.) the end results will be fairly similar in the performance category anyway. If the decision was mine to make I'd say get the new car. It might be your only opportunity to drive a brand new car for quite some time.
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