Sports Car Overview
Ravish Kumar
| 07-06-2024
· Auto Team
The concept of a sports car is a car with smooth body lines, low height, excellent handling, and mighty power.
Its purpose is to "bring racing sports into family life." Its advent has given many ordinary people who are obsessed with racing sports the opportunity to experience racing drivers. Therefore, sports cars can be understood as "the civilian version of racing cars" and are full of sportiness.
According to a relatively general approach, sports cars on the market can be divided into three major categories: first, high-end sports cars that are expensive and have excellent speed performance; second, mid-to-high-end sports cars, the comfort of such models is often better than their power; third, they are mid-to-high-end sports cars. It is a relatively low-end sports car that generally pays more attention to appearance.
The following categories do not include all sports cars, as there are still gaps.
1. Performance sports car
Performance sports cars are the mainstay of the sports car family. According to model positioning, performance sports cars are between civilian sports cars and super sports cars. It has smooth lines and abundant power, and its top speed may reach 300km/h.
2.Supercar
Generally speaking, it refers to a sports car with high power output and outstanding appearance. The price is usually as high as millions to tens of millions, the top speed can reach more than 300km/h, and most of them only have two seats. Supercars accelerate, brake, and handle well and look great too.
In the mid-1960s, the British car magazine "Car" officially entered the term "supercar" into the modern automotive lexicon, but they were not the first to use the term. The editor of "Car" initially used this term to describe the famous Lamborghini Miura, and it turned out that this term is entirely appropriate. It is understood that this term was initially born in an advertisement about the classic car Ensign Six - that was in the more distant 1920s.
3. GT sports car
GT, derived from Italian Gran Turismo.
It mainly refers to the journey of young people from aristocratic families in the United Kingdom, a newly industrialized country, to the European continent since the 18th century, in search of the origins of art and culture of European civilization and contact with the upper-class society of the continent.
The carriages they rode in were luxurious and comfortable, suitable for long journeys across the European continent. The interior space is enough to store several months of travel needs and all kinds of art purchased along the way. This type of carriage is called a Grand Tourer.
After the invention of the automobile, as a tribute to the history of the Grand Tour, Britain and Italy, where the traditional Grand Tour route started and ended, manufactured a large number of "comfortable sports cars suitable for crossing the continent."
Compared with other sports cars, their suspensions are softer, and their bodies are heavier. The 2+2 layout leaves ample space for seating and storage. The engine is tuned more towards low-rev torque rather than high-rev output, making mid-range acceleration more robust and less impulsive.
The focus of GT is on luxury and comfort rather than ultimate handling, driving experience, and sports performance. A large number of leather, wood, and metal decorations in the car, as well as sufficient comfort functions (such as massage seats, large-capacity fuel tanks, soundproof glass, air suspension, etc.), often lead to a hefty body.