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Originally Posted by axiomatik
t The traditional definition of a "sports car" is a lightweight, good handling 2-seat convertible/roadster. In more recent years, the term has been applied mostly to expensive, high-performance cars, but traditionally, it describes the miata perfectly.
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ahem cough cough, by your definition a Porsche 911 was never sports car . BZZZ wrong!
You have posted your own opinion of a Sports car not the the general rule, if you want to get down to brass tacks about it. Your definition is for a type of sports car!! A roadster like you did state, but a type!
Now closed roof cars can be be Sports cars, and have been sports cars since the the end of world war II.Yes before WWII most if not all sports cars were open seat roadsters but just because the car has a closed roof does not rule it out of the sports car catagory. You cannot say a Ferrari 246 is not a sports car nor can you not say 62 Jaguar XKE is not a sports car, it came both open and closed top!
Does this make Pony cars like the Mustang a Sports car? no. Technically a Mustang is a sporty car not a sports car per se but it also straddles the line of falling into the muscle car catagory, hence the pony car catagorization. A Eclipse is a Sport compact. Sport compacts are basically compact cars made sporty and all sports oriented FWD.
Does the 180sx/240sx fastback fall into the sports car catagory? Yes. Does the Silvia aka 240sx coupe fall into the same catagory technically no its a Sports coupe as is a M3 and most BMW's excepting the Z3,Z4,Z8.
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