Agree with most previous posts, it's because of the price. It's supposed to be an affordable entry level sports car that offers well balanced handling in a RWD chassis so you can have fun cornering and drifting but not for power. The std spec is only around 200HP/200nm, 0-100kph in about 7-8secs, so it's not that fast but not that slow either. However when marketed here, it's way overpriced at about rm240k hence only real hardcore rich enthusiasts would buy them. Anyway the second hand prices or recon prices are already dropping quite a lot whereby you can get 1 for around rm120-130k. Then if you do want more power, there are plenty of turbo/supercharger kits to boost it up as long as you have the money and the will. I personally like this car too but would never buy it at the current price level, maybe later once it drops below 100k.

It's not meant to compete with GTR in the first place, totally different market segment.