I am getting old. I'll openly admit that.
Generally, as proven on here most weeks, people take a smart looking standard car, and wreck it with tints, badly painted wheels, awful lights, bonnet lifters, slam it on its arse so it's un-drivable, and then wonder why they get ripped to shreds on here or laughed at when they can't negotiate the first speedbump they find.
Springs will make it handle a bit better, assuming the shocks cope with it. But then the wheels will need spacing out to look right. It's a slippery slope to replacing the wheels, brakes, coilovers when springs don't quite do it any more, then buckets etc etc... costing a fortune.
OP wants it to look better, but has no idea what he wants to do, or much money to do it with. Everyones opinion of 'better' differs. Go look at the media section and get some ideas !
I'd love to know how bad a driver one would have to be to get beaten at anything in an RS by a 1.2, other than reversing into a space at Tesco. :S