From: Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>
>>>Gano, Ken said:
> Hate to disagree, but my '84 Porsche 928 had an auto box and it was
every
> bit a sport car (as long as you don't count the power windows, power
seat
> and air conditioning)
Err, umm...
Well, there's autos & autos:
The first Corvettes had truck engines & 2 speed GM autos. They were
marketed as sports cars.
I think all the V12 XKE Jaguars sent to the US had automatic transmissions
(from GM, too; guess it took that long for their transmission to find a
sports car).
So there's a spectrum, & the things which fall in the middle have a
"personality" problem, like Camaros.
(The car with an auto trans which ever seemed most a "sports" car to me was
a '64 Dodge 440 station wagon with the pushbutton transmission. I was at a
stoplight around '88 between a new Camaro & Trans Am who were obviously
going to race, & left them both far, far behind. Two people left
astonished, one left with a bad case of the giggles for a week. The GT6
head was in the back, going to the machine shop, and might have been
snickering, too.)
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