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Originally Posted by cbaber
I would argue that a muscle car is a sub-category of sports car. In fact, anything can be a sports car. To classify them only as small 2 seaters is not correct. I would call an M3 or M5 a sports car, and they come in sedan versions, and are not small.
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That just means that you're using the (IMHO) wrong definition of sports car. It's not, in the final analysis, about absolute performance, but about fun. Sport, in other words. For instance, many of the classic sports cars of the '50s and '60s - Austin-Healey, MG, Triumph, etc - were honestly not all that great at performance, but they were small & fun to drive.
Maybe if you take an analogy, it's like the difference between riding in a Boeing, and buzzing around at treetop (or sagebrush, hereabouts) level in your Piper or Citabria.
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Originally Posted by niky
To be utterly pedantic, the Miata is one of the few cars on the road that fits the definition.
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Which is why I think it's a pity that Mustangs and such are thought of, and sold as, sports cars: it crowds a market niche that could have real, affordable sports cars. As Lee Iacocca is quoted as saying of the declining sales of the increasingly porky original Mustang, "The Mustang market never left us, we left it."