I prefer the Daimler Sovereign

3 hours to get through US immigration in Houston after a 7 hour flight from the UK, no AC in May, sun shining through huge windows, made for a hot and smelly wait.

Absolutely

Nope, Reliant Kitten........a mutant Robin

Depends if this is limited to production vehicles or not, shame the BL never put the Lynx into production though.

I had a red MkI vRS, absolutely loved it to bits. Great for scaring Impreza owners and such a sleeper many UK police forces used them as unmarked highway patrol cars.

Beat me too it

It would have been funnier if you hadn't posted the Super Beetle from the 70's which is a poor copy of the original Beetle

Agreed but they were available in earlier versions. So are you saying the earlier iterations of the RX-7 are not sports cars then because they have rear seats? Does that mean the 911 is not a sports car?

2003 Mini Cooper has a kerb weight of 1144 kg and the RX-8 1309 kg, I'd call that lightweight for a car of its size, or is it that the Mini is just a fat bastard?

The RX-8 was very lightweight for a 00's car, only 300kg more than an RX-7FD

Why hello RX-7 rear seats, I didn't see you there.

The original RX-7 was nothing like the later generations, gen 1 was a 924 competitor and the later lightweight one was a 911 fighter, so you could apply the same there.

Agreed, I had a 306 D Turbo, the first of the HDi diesel turbos. Looked amazing and incredible fun to drive.

Yes, the goal developed over the iterations of the RX-7. It evolved further with the RX-8 as their target had changed, just because Mazda added a couple of small suicide doors to aid access to the rear seats doesn't make it any less of a modern day evolution of the RX-7.

No, but when they produced the RX-8, a rotary engined sports car, Mazda decided they needed to make it practical. Just like Mazda decided that the 90's RX-7 could be more hardcore and take on Porsche.

Yes, to me the categorisation should be based upon the decade the car was released, so because the 944 was released in the 80's its and80's car despite it being available for sale in the 90's. So the 71-73 Mustang is a 70's car.

Thanks, you just backup my thoughts on this. RX-7 changed due to the market it was aimed at and the RX-8 continued that.

The original RX-7 was a 924 competitor which is not the same as the 90's version, the same argument can be used to say the RX-8 is the 00's version of the RX-7, its just the the goal of the production model was different.

That's immaterial, the RX-8 was a light coupe with a rotary produced by Mazda, it is essentially a 00's RX-7.