09-16-2009, 08:54 PM | #1 |
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Sports Car????
I am new here and have not got to read a lot of the threads, but caught one last night from a member who was going to sell his Camaro because it was not the sports car he expected. It go t me to thinking howmany people think of it as a sports car? Have heard it called that, but never considered it to be. I always thought of it as a muscle car.
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09-16-2009, 08:59 PM | #2 |
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i dont consider it a muscle car, mainly because it is new. to me muscle cars are low 80's and older, this is just my opinion. i do think its closer than the 4th gens to a muscle car, mainly because it has design cues from one of the best muscle cars.
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09-16-2009, 09:01 PM | #3 |
I also consider it a muscle car, or maybe in very specialized class called pony cars. Not a sports car in the purist sense.
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09-16-2009, 09:04 PM | #4 |
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Sport coupe, modern muscle maybe...but not a sports car to me. The Miata, Z4, even the Skye are more of sports cars than the Camaro. Then of course the Corvette, Ferrari and Lamorghini.
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09-16-2009, 09:07 PM | #5 |
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It could not be more of a sports car. It races, and it beats other sports cars. What else would you call it? Muscle cars and pony cars are both categories of competitive sports cars.
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09-16-2009, 09:10 PM | #6 |
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I just consider it a performance car. I guess you cant exactly say it's a true sports car (if you define one as a 2dr super small super light, high hp/lb, rear drive car) but it is a sporty car with the potential to do things true sports cars do. The main thing to do with all this hp is to perform. Whether it be on a dragstrip or a circuit track.
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09-16-2009, 09:13 PM | #7 |
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i like to think of it as a ricer...jp id have to say sports car
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09-16-2009, 09:16 PM | #8 |
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I consider the Camaro a muscle car not a so called sports car. A sports car would be like a Corvette or a Viper. Camaro's are a muscle car and they will always be called that ever since they came out in '67. You can call it a modern day muscle car like the Mustang and the Challenger I also consider them modern day muscle with better fuel economy.
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09-16-2009, 09:17 PM | #9 |
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I've always heard it called a sports car, but then I looked up for myself the definition of a sports car, muscle car, and pony car. I consider it a muscle car and a pony car, but I think most of the world considers those terms to be a sub-genre of the phrase "sports car..."
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This is a sports car. Just like only a few others. Muscle is HP. That's WHY they were considered 'Muscle Cars' But like Blur said, it races and beats other sports cars. It's a sports car. Personaly, I call it a muscle car to pay homage to the reason we have it. |
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09-16-2009, 09:24 PM | #11 | |
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You also assume that a sports car has 2 doors, but the M5 is a recognized sports sedan, and you can't argue that the CTS-V is anything less than dominating in sports brackets with that LSA under the hood. In summary, all that matters in a sports car is that sporty performance and appearance are important. There are different kinds of sports cars, but to deny a competitive car a place among sports cars would be nothing less than sacrilege to a great machine.
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09-16-2009, 09:26 PM | #12 |
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And if Randy is lucky his wife will not beat him anymore in his car.
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09-16-2009, 09:28 PM | #13 |
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it is NOT a sports car... it is a MUSCLE car... a sports car would be the corvette .... theres a difference
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09-16-2009, 09:33 PM | #14 |
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I consider it a hybrid of both.
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