A Miata is a roadster and a small-bore sports car, just like the Sentra SE-R is a sedan and a sport compact.
That's not to say all roadsters are sports cars; back in the early days of automobiles when these definitions were first put in place, there were many non-sports roadsters, like the Ford 'T-bucket' (2-door, 2-seat version of the Model T). Or even as recently as the early '90s there was the Mercury Capri, a roadster but not much of a sports car.
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