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Sports Car: Makes Your Man About Town

By William at 06/04/07 12:29

, transportation: Old Sedan A sports car is designed purely for performance. Most sports cars have rear-wheel drive and have two seats and two doors. These cars are designed for handling and acceleration. A sports car's dominant considerations are superior handling and braking. Maneuverability, low weight, and high power are also important consideration in the design of a sports car.

The front-engine, rear-wheel layout is the most common layout in many sports cars. This configuration is used more in sports cars rather than mainstream automobiles. In order to provide improved handling and weight distribution many other formats have been tried. In the RMR layout the motor is centre-mounted in the chassis and powers only the rear wheels. Many modern cars also use a FMR layout, with the motor sitting between the front axle and the firewall.

With the advance of technology, some sports car manufacturers have tried to increase the usability of their vehicles by increasing the seating room. This was mainly done with an intention of increasing the market for sports cars, which were highly unpopuler then due to the lack of fuel efficiency of sports cars. One method that was tried was placing the driver's seat in the center of the car. This allowed two properly sized passenger seats to be fitted on each side of the driver. These seats were slightly behind the driver seat. This arrangement was originally used in the Lamborghini Miura, but abandoned as it was highly impractical and posed a difficulty for the driver to enter or exit the vehicle.

A sports car does not necesserily have a large and powerful engineOn tight roads, lighter, better handling automobiles perform more effectively than a heavier, more powerful luxury car with less maneuverability. Hence sports cars are beasts designed solely for performance on road.

[Photo here is not a sports car.]

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