It's a sport compact. A practical car with pretty good stock performance, plenty of "luggage" capacity, 4 seats, comfort compramises, but all with a sporty side. If it had better factory tuned suspension, 100lbs lighter, mechanical LSD, and 50 more hp, I would have no problem calling it a sports car. As it is...I might could live with calling it an entry level sports car, kinda like the first Z cars. In my mind's eye, there are very few true sports cars...maybe the RX-7 and MR-2. Most cars with power are big and fall in the GT or sport/luxury coupe class. Most cars with less/medium power and better handling are topless roadsters. But really, you could lump all of them into an all-encompassing generic sports car class...from the Neon ACR to the Lambo Diablo....or whatever....ok, I'm just rambling now. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/lookaround.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':look:'>
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