Definition of sports car
: a low small usually 2-passenger automobile designed for quick response, easy maneuverability, and high-speed driving
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At the Geneva Motor Show in 1971, an Italian industrialist named Ferruccio Lamborghini unveiled a new sports car his company hoped to build.
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In the 1995 movie, 007 - played by Pierce Brosnan - raced the classic British sports car around the Monaco hills in pursuit of Xenia Onatopp, the Ferrari-driving assassin played by Famke Janssen.
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Bricklin left Subaru in the early ’70s to form his own car company, which sold the gull-winged Bricklin SV1 sports car from 1974-76.
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Ferrari first rolled out the Dino in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to offer a low-cost sports car.
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Oladipo is gone, a sports car with so many gears, leaving Bayno in his wake at the 3-point arc.
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Unlike the Falcon Heavy, though, which carried an old sports car into space as a joke, the Rocket Lab test had a real payload, in the form of three small, commercial satellites.
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The Heavy debuted in February, launching Musk’s Tesla electric sports car toward the orbit of Mars.
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The changes include getting rid of all cars in the region during the next four years except for the Mustang sports car and a compact Focus crossover vehicle, CEO Jim Hackett said as the company released first-quarter earnings.
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First Known Use of sports car
1919
SPORTS CAR Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of sports car for English Language Learners
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: a low, small car that seats two people and that is made for fast driving
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