"Comparable performance is the Mooney"
Nah, Pace, even a 20 year old Mooney would perform far better than a new Cirrus with a similar engine!
Any day of the year a Mooney will take you faster and further (than anything in the same category, but especially the Cirrus) with far less fuel consumption.
The only things the Cirrus will do better than a Mooney is depreciate and decelerate (actually come to think of it the Mooney even beats it at deceleration with its precise flight speedbrakes fitted as standard)!
Safety-wise with Cirrus there have been numerous accidents, mostly due to the person behind the controls making a poor decision.
A common theme is newbie pilot and newbie pilot's wife like the look and price of the Cirrus (as it looks more like an SUV than a plane) and is spacious inside. Newbie pilot has a parachute as a get-out-of-jail-free card and flies into conditions which exceed their abilities. Sometimes the chute saves them.
Cirrus = a triumph of clever marketing over real substance.
SB