| Here is the definition of a sports car as defined in the "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary." "Sports Car, a small, high powered automobile with long, low lines, usually seating two persons." I know a "general" definition is not something you'll agree with, but it was born somewhere. :-) I also found this: Look up "sports car" in a modern dictionary and there's a picture of a Mazda Miata. Well, there should be. The Miata is everything the classic sports cars were meant to be, and many things the two-seat British roadsters never were. The Miata is simple and affordable, absolutely reliable, and fun to drive in a way not achieved by powerful sport coupes or high-performance sedans.
The Miata is not brutally fast, nor particularly exotic. Nor were the great roadsters it emulates. Like them, however, the Miata celebrates the simple joy of motion, of human beings relating to machines in a manner that borders on intimacy. This has a mathematical formula for a sports car: What is a sports car? This was kind of a cool definition...valid? Who knows? The classic British definition of a sports car is "a two-seater, preferably open,
that can, in a pinch, be raced." Well, that's enough for now...lol It seems that terms get redefined over time. But if you get down to the heart of it, you'll see that many of the cars we talked about probably aren't really sports cars per say. Most people equate fast cars with sports cars and that just isn't the case. Anyway, where do I sit? I say who gives a crap. I drive a Z. :-)
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