True Sports Cars. Who makes the cut?
Car magazines in the 1990's standards stated, the best sports cars met these criteria.
Perfect sports car ride height
48.0" to 51" with the ideal height of 49.5"
GT performer cars ideal ride height was considered between 52" to 54"
Perfect sports car weight was considered 2,200 to 2,900
Perfect GT weight was somewhere between 2,9,00 to 3,500lbs. Let's see how today's cars stack up?
From my research, only 3 cars stack up as true sports cars by description.
Toyota 86
Mazda MX5
Alfa Romeo 4c.
But only one of them actually gets 100% sports car performance #'s.
Alfa Romeo 4c
Here. Are the top 5 that come closer to being a real sports car.
Porsche Cayman
Porsche 911 GTS
Lotus Evora 400
Audi TTS
Nissan 370z
_list of weights n heights__________________
MB c43amg------- 56.3"/3,741
BMW M2------------- 55.5"/3,450lb
Lexus F350/RCF-- 55.0"/3,748lb RCF 3,958lbs
Cadillac ATS-V----- 55.0"/3803lb
BMW M4------------- 54.5"/3,553lb
Infiniti Q60---------- 54.5"/3,862
Mustang GT350-- 54.4"/3,781
Mustang GT--------- 54.0"/3,701
Nissan GT-R--------- 53.9"/3,933
Lexus LC 500------ 53.0"/ 4,280
Audi TT-S------------- 53.0"/ 3,164
Camaro SS ---------- 53.0"/3,883
Camaro SS 1LE---- 52.0"/ 3,820
Nissan 370z"-------- 52.0"/ 3,292
370z Nismo---------- 51.6"/ 3,379
Jaguar F-Type------ 51.5"/ 3,455 to 3,847
*Toyota 86------------- 51.0/" 2,800
MB AMG GT-S------- 51.0"/3,627
Porsche 911 GTS--.50.6"/3,197
Porsche 911 GT3-- 50.4"/3,505
Porsche Cayman-- 50.0"/2,976
Audi R8-v8------------ 49.0"/3,627
Corvette GS---------- 49.0"/3,450
*Mazda MX5---------- 48"/ 2,340
Lotus Evora 400--- 48.0"/3,153
Acura NSX------------ 48.0"/3,803
*Alfa Romeo 4c----- 47.0"/2,450
I'm not discrediting any cars performance value. This is really just a measurement of how far car companies have strayed from dimensional boundaries within the definition of a sports car.
Though I feel a true sports car is RWD only. I had to give respect to the Audi TT for making such a light technically advanced performance car.
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Last edited by UNKNOWN_370; 07-16-2017 at 07:08 PM.
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