Is this a sports car

Always intetesting to see what the PH collective have to say.... Usually quite positive and thus helping drive up those prices.

I know a number of people on the forum use PH.

pistonheads

A good debate on that thread....imo it's a coupe/grand tourer I don't rate it or define it as a 'sports car' but it is a 'sporty car'

Agree!

How uniformed the pistonheads crowd are, alfa is a 'sporty' car fiat isn't - 90% of the reasons against the coupe are shared parts with alfa.....

Thats Wazza's Coupe.

From all of the Fiat Coupe pictures out there they find one from Sydney!

It's the classic question - just like 'what's a classic?'. The only answer is 'it's what I define it to be.'

For example: I'd never class the coupe - in standard form - as a sports car; it's a grand tourer. Something you get in in London and get out of in Berlin or Edinburgh or Copenhagen or Nice. Or, as the case may be, Spa Francorchamps.

A sports car is something *intended* for the track, but in which you can drive to and from the race track... but your own intent changes it, too. If it lives on a trailer and isn't road legal, it's a race car. If it's a half million pound Ferrari that spends all its time on the King's Road and never gets anywhere near a track, it's a GT, irrespective of Ferrari's idea about what the car was for.

It's got to be a gt coupe. Ok on track they are fun and serious compitition for exotic machines in a straight line.

But their real home is miles and miles of European autoroute.
A thousand miles in a day is possible in the coupe in comfort.

When you sweep down from one autoroute to another and open it up well that's a very nice feeling.

We all know it can take four adults but I wouldn't want to on a long trip.
Plenty of room in the car for spare track wheels,camping gear ,bedding and bottles of lemonade.
What's not to like. But a gt coupe it is.

Definition from one source on the net Sports Car = a low small usually 2-passenger automobile designed for quick response, easy maneuverability, and high-speed driving

I've just replied - it is a sporty car, but ultimately it is a coupe!