Actually, the Honda (Acura in the U.S.)NSX is exactly fitting of that
definition. Especially, if you go with the list consensus and consider
the 914 a sports car. What would you use it for other than going fast?

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
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Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 4:58 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: no VW sports cars? No longer any Vanagon content

>I'm inclined to think that a sports car is a vehicle that is absolutely
>impractical for anything other than going quickly merely for the joy of
>it. Whether it's an early Mazda RX-7 picked up for a few hundred
dollars
>or The Dauer Porsche 962 LeMans (about a million bucks).

By that definition the Honda NSX isn't a sportscar... ;-)
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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