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Quote (Kreator @ Dec. 03 2002,6:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">So that makes 60's corvette/chevelle/camaro/firebird non sports cars too?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Yes. Well, the Corvette is now and has always been a sports car. It is America's Sports Car. The Camaro/Firebird is a pony car and the Chevelle was a midsize sedan. Note: The Chevelle SS was a musclecar, which I think is what you're getting at, but the standard Chevelle was rather boring. My parents had a '67 Chevelle with a <100hp 194ci inline six. Some sports car <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':laugh:'>
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Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'd put it this way. If anyone remembers the old "ricer's make jesus babys cry" thing on corvette forum, there was a post that i thought was pretty well defining the term sports car. Basicly, what it said was that a sports car is a car that is fast/wellhandling from the factory. Cars that were built to be fast or to handle well from the factory.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
But that would include things like the Bentley Continental Turbo R, etc - machines that are impressive, but not sporting. Too much mass. Too much luxury. That's more like the definition of "performance car".
That definition also EXCLUDES many of the classic examples of sports cars. Triumph Spitfires are dog-ass slow. Miatas aren't too fast either.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Hmm well.... drop the chevelle thing <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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But camaros and firebirds are still there. What i'm basicly getting at is that there is no defininition of a sports car. The one prolly by which we should go is whether the car is labeled sports from the factory. Cuz u cant really label corvette a non-sports car, even though in the 60's it couldn't turn worth crap. And you can't really compare Enzo and 350z even though they are both still in teh same category.
As for insurance companies, i'd say they'd label geo metro a sports car if the law let the do that <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/whatsthat.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':whatthe:'>