From: Mr53CSP@aol.com <Mr53CSP@aol.com>
>Sports Car, By SCCA Standards...
>Anything that isn't a SUV or a high-rise vehicle...basically anything you
can't autocross in...
No. At least not in the Solo 2 book. To understand the catch-alls in Stock
and Street Prepared classes, you have to be able to define "sports car" and
"sedan" Apparently, if it is a car, and it can't qualify as a sedan, its a
sports car under Solo 2 rules. This was the SCCA standard to which I
referred. The differentiation is defined by
12.2 Sedan. A car capable of transporting four or more average-size
adults in normal seating positions. [1998]
If there has been a change in this since 1998, nobody has told me about it.
>Sports Car, by us...
>General Consensus agrees with me: Nimble, light (less than 3000lbs), rwd,
and everytime you
>drive it, you exit the car smiling.
Don't agree that it needs to be RWD, and I think 3000 pounds ain't light.
My Europa is half of that. I go more for 2000. But hey, my SAAB 96 scaled
at 2000, and it was definitely a sedan. My Sonett was well under 2000, and
I considered it a sports car, as do others, even though it is not RWD.
>If my CRX was RWD... it'd be a sports car, but, to me and many others, it's
just a sportier civic or their worst enemy (ITA and CSP Miata/1G RX7 guys)
=)
According to 12.2, it's a sports car. Then again, so is a Reatta or a Nash
Metropolitan.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
Daughter Amanda has presented us with a second grandchild. Sirena Mae
Stremski
arrived on the first day of Spring 2001, weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces.
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