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Originally Posted by cbaber
And if you call a Miata a sports car but not an M5, yet an M5 out performs it nearly every aspect, then your logic is severely flawed.
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To be utterly pedantic, the Miata is one of the few cars on the road that fits the definition.
The classic definition of "sports car", if you take lightweight as meaning "compared to most other cars on the road", only fits very few cars on the road today, among them, the MX-5, the Elise, the Boxster/Cayman and a bunch of trackday specials.
The techhnical term for 2+2s like the BRZ, 911, M3 and Mustang is "Grand Tourer"...
Outright performance does not signify a sports car, body style and purpose do. Otherwise, you could consider the R63 a better sports car than most actual sports cars.
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After all of that, I actually agree with you, as I have a fairly liberal interpretation of the word, myself, but the classic definition is fairly narrow and antediluvian.