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Originally Posted by UltArc
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...tml#post419974
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Did I say those aren't race cars? No, if they're for racing, they're by definition race cars, but their form depends on the rules of the particular type of racing. There's truck racing (Truck racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), tractor racing, and even lawnmower racing.
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Specifically quoting my question, you specifically say “no.”
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No, I didn't, because I never commented (originally) on what you said about race cars. If I didn't write clearly enough, I apologize.
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The point was that a sports car is not an exact layout, power to weight ratio, or your articulation of how it should handle. Just as a race car can be a racing truck, Nascar, or F1 car (a car for the purpose of racing?), a sports car can achieve spirited driving, or driving for the pleasure of driving in many ways (a car for the purpose of sport?).
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Hummm... by that definition,doesn't a Hummer qualify as a sports car?
Really, you're just trying to play linguistic games here. Because the term for a particular class of thing - sports car - was coined from two words, you're trying to work backwards to claim that any car used for sport is a sports car. Carry this out to the logical
ad absurdum extreme, and we'd have to accept that sports cars include the bus taking a football team to a game :-)
I'm sorry, I'm sticking with Webster on this one :-)