True Sports Cars. Who makes the cut?

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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.