Add your comments
Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.
When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.
To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br> tags.
Please note that gratuitous links to your site are viewed as spam and may result in removed comments.
Saleen makes new value-oriented Racecraft brand official
Officially Official: 2009 BMW 7 Series
Officially Official: 2009 Ford Focus RS
I want my FPV: Super sedans hit the desert in new TV spot
Happy Independence Day from Autoblog
Track Test: 2008 Roush 427R Trak Pak Mustang
In the Autoblog Garage: 2008 Porsche Cayman S
First Drive: 2009 Chevrolet Traverse
In the Autoblog Garage: 2008 Mazda MX-5 Miata Retractable Hard Top
In The Autoblog Garage: BMW 128i Convertible
Reader Comments for
Subscribe to this thread(Page 1 of 1)
mk @ Apr 10th 2008 12:56PM
@naggs,
performance does not require 300+ hp, true. But I a similar turbo subaru engine, and it is FUN!!!!!
My wife's miata has 144hp (stock figure) and it is fun, too.
"everyone seems to have forgotten what a sportscar actually is, a car that can change direction quickly. nowhere in there is there mention of 0-60 or HP."
This isn't going to be a sports car, no matter what the headline says.
A sports car has two seats usually. This is going to be a Sport Coupe, and a 2+2.
The Solstice Targa Coupe is a sports car. It has only two seats, and no other practical purpose than the joy of driving. That isn't to say that the GXP is any MORE, nor is it LESS of a sports car than the base Solstice coupe, or the solstice convertibles, GXP or no. As well, the Sky and Miata. The RX8 is not a sports car, either. The RX7 was. The RX8 is a Sport pseudo-Coupe with four doors, two of which are not traditional doors.
A Sport Coupe, or a light sports car doesn't NEED lots of power. But that doesn't make ample power somehow bad.
Most would agree that a Legacy GT is sportier than a 2.5i, as a Sport Sedan, Most would also agree that a WRX is sportier than a base Impreza, and the STI sportier yet.
Sports cars are not defined by performance stats, but does that make a Corvette, or a Porsche GT3 or GT2 any less of a Sports car? GT-R is not a sports car, though, it is a very fast Sport Coupe, and the better for it being so fast.