Topic: "Sports Cars"

[Brigitte]

According to dictionary.com, here is the definition of a sports car.  I think this might help narrow the list.   

"An automobile equipped for racing, especially an aerodynamically shaped one-passenger or two-passenger vehicle having a low center of gravity and steering and suspension designed for precise control at high speeds."

[Giant Dwarf]

Also... How old is Fellow 1.  Is he married or common-law?  Those are key for insurance rates when you are male.  I can't see how a vette with a sixty year old driver is going to have sky high insurance rates.  

Pfff!  That's nothing more than a myth perpetuated by marriage-longing women trying to dupe their resistant boyfriends into nuptuals. 

My insurance has GONE UP this year!!! 
                 

[wing]

According to dictionary.com, here is the definition of a sports car. I think this might help narrow the list.

"An automobile equipped for racing, especially an aerodynamically shaped one-passenger or two-passenger vehicle having a low center of gravity and steering and suspension designed for precise control at high speeds."

Wouldn't that be a racing car?

My car matches closely to that description.  If you've driven the tiburon and than an S2000 you understand why the Tib is not a sports car

[Scaerio]

5th Gear did a sports car showdown a year or so ago and according to their criteria, a sports car had to be designed only as a convertible, seat only two, and be RWD.  So while the 911 didn't cut it, the Boxster did (and won the showdown, beating the S2000, Miata, Caterham 7, and some really spooky UK thing that looked like a road legal Can-Am car...)

[tenpenny]

The trick, as with everything, is to make the definition so that you get the result you want.  Don't define the question until you know the answer.  Then you work backwards.

[si]

As much as RWD might be 'funner', I think a FWD car can be considered a sports car - because not all FWD cars exhibit the constant lame understeering.

Case in point, new Honda Civic Si(R) with LSD.  You are turning around a corner and you feel the car begin to understeer.  What do you do?  Gas it!  The LSD sends more power to the outside wheel thus tightening your turning radius and keeping a smile on your face as your line stays true.

It's like SHAWD on a budget.

[Arthur Dent]

According to dictionary.com, here is the definition of a sports car.  I think this might help narrow the list.   

"An automobile equipped for racing, especially an aerodynamically shaped one-passenger or two-passenger vehicle having a low center of gravity and steering and suspension designed for precise control at high speeds."

I'd take out aerodynamic and put in relatively light weight and it would be workable definition. The heavier cars are more GT-ish and things like MG TC, Lotus Sevens, etc are aerodynamic.