Unless you're specifically talking about the convertible versions of the aforementioned cars, they are not sports cars. What do you call them, then? Add a permanent hardtop to a sports car and you get a grand tourer. Any high-performance automobile designed for speed, agility, and handling is labelled a sports car these days, but in reality, a majority of them are grand tourers.
Admittedly, a grand tourer doesn't quite evoke the same excitement as a sports car, but that's reality.
Moving past these relatively welldefined categories, the classification of performance cars truly breaks down. Now, what exactly is a supercar? An arbitrary combination of price, performance, and rarity classifies something as a supercar.
With a name like that, you'd think supercars are the absolute pinnacle of automotive design and engineering, but you'd be mistaken.
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