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Depending on what you've already done to the car. First of all, make sure everything you already have is working really well: the right plugs, properly gapped, no vacuum/pressure leaks and so forth. Obvious but, apart from anything else, cheap or even free.
Next, before you spend anything on performance, review your brakes, suspension components and wheels/tyres. Change the brake fluid, make sure you have decent pads and rotors. Look at the tyre wear pattern - get the tracking checked. Rock stuff around and bounce on it, listen for growls and clonks. If you car has done 100,000 miles you will want plenty of new suspension bushes - consider poly ones - and might take on a spring/damper upgrade, even if only to Aero spec. Don't think you'd want to combine 250 bhp with worn 15" tyres and sloppy undercarriage.
Then there are two options, neither viciously expensive:
(1) you could fit a 3" exhaust, preferably turbo-back, which would give you perhaps 10 bhp but would certainly make the car a bit louder.
(2) buy some new software, looking at site sponsors (genuinesaab, Jak Stoll and others) or people like Maptun. You could get 245 bhp with software alone, maybe just freshen up the air cleaner for good measure.
Obviously, if you buy both the exhaust and the software you have a higher "stage" of tune and you need to tell the software guys about the full spec so the ECU is appropriate.
After this, there are lots of other things for you to spend money on: thoughtful intake improvements, a better intercooler, and (after a certain point) injector and FPR mods. But in the real world, I've come round to thinking that software is the way to go - not expensive and almost embarrassingly easy.
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