What is considered a sports car anymore?
Is it judging by ultimate quickness? Track worthiness? Performance on public roads?
Road legal track cars? Road cars that's capable on a race track?
Are widely accepted GT cars considered sports cars? Or are they already being classified as a different class?
90% of the population cannot extract 90% of a car's performance on 90% of the world's paved surfaces, is a 'sports car' ultimate performance on a closed race track matters anymore?
If track performance is the benchmark, I have to believe the ultimate 'sports car' to be a track car disguised as road cars like the Ariel Atom, nothing comes close.
What about creature comfort, are those addition to a 'sports car' diminished the 'sports car' definition? Or is it the amount of creature comfort a car provides that separate 'sports car' from the rest? So something a little bit less hardcore than the Atom, like a GT3RS, Scuderia, etc the quintessential 'sports car'?
A 458 has a lot more creature comfort over the Scuderia, like sat nav, leather everywhere, etc. Do those things make it less 'sports car' than the Scuderia?
A 997 Turbo, most consider it a sports car, some disagreed saying it's more GT car for long distance travel comfort. So do comfort comes into play when considering 'sports car'? A more comfortable car is LESS 'sports car' than a less comfortable car?
Handling do play a part in the consideration, but where to draw the line? If a 997 Turbo is not considered to be a 'sports car' but more of a GT car, then the bar is set very very high as the 997 Turbo already out handles 95% of the cars out there. I doubt there will be no more than 1% of the population who can even come close to half way of a 'sports car' handling envelope on public roads.
It's 3am here and I can't sleep thinking about this philosophical question. Funny how the human mind works.