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I guess it's "sporty".  For me, driving a manual convertible of about any ilk would be more fun on a twisty stretch.

illegal for me - not many race tracks in this area

I agree with the comment above that most folks who buy these "sports cars" buy them for acceleration.  They rarely touch any handling limits if ever.  It could be amusing to buy a sedan that can dust off some "sporty cars" I think "Q cars", they can be called.

I'd rather have, for me, a "sporty car" that is fun to drive even if a bit on the slow side.  I do like a nice exhaust note.  The old 240i convertible had one, I thought, and was pretty sporty to me with a manual (and not all that slow either).

It might be interesting to compare and contrast with the exhaust note of the Z06.  

C8 Z06 Corvette Exhaust Revs Sound

I rather like the lumpy regular V8 exhaust sound, I guess I'm more used to it.  The flat plane thing sounds ... foreign.

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My friend's dad got him a 64 1/2 Mustang that needed gobs of work done to the engine.  It was black, and cosmetically in good shape, so it was pretty sharp.  We spent a good portion of that summer trying to fix that thing up, and/or begging his dad for $, faster, to get it fixed up sooner.  We eventually got it going with a lot of help with mechanical expertise from his dad.  Man, getting through gears in that thing was nothing like today's manual transmission vehicles.  This was not only before I knew how to drive a stick, it was really before I knew how to drive anything, really.  When I later got a "modern" 5-speed, I stalled out a lot while getting the hang of the clutch.  That Mustang though, what I remember about it is that it didn't seem to care how clumsy I was with the clutch.  It just caught a gear and started plowing, with me ostensibly in control, but not really.  That engine was not looking for an excuse to die like my pansy Ford Escort.  The Mustang wanted to geaux.  

Also, why was his dad letting us drive that thing around the outskirts of BR when neither of us had a license?  This was 1994, not "the old days" like geezers talk about where there were apparently no laws and no consequences.