Sports sedan

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The Maserati Quattroporte here in the first series was a sports sedan from the 1960s.

Sport limousine is an unspecified and unprotected name for cars with powerful engines that enable performance at the level of a sports car , but have the body and dimensions of a limousine .

Some sports sedans are also offered in a station wagon variant and are then often marketed as a sport suit.

General

Some sports car manufacturers also offer sedans with high performance levels that are technically based on sports car models. However, these are not actually sports cars, but rather sports sedans or sporty luxury sedans. A car of this kind was the Maserati Quattroporte from 1963 , at 230 km / h the fastest sedan in the world and now in the sixth generation in the range.

Attempts at definition

In the history of the automobile, there have been repeated attempts to define and differentiate certain passenger car bodies and body shapes more precisely. Ultimately, no uniform, binding, long-term definition has emerged for the sports sedan; all attempts at definition are to be seen in a historical context and are sometimes shaped by the subjective criteria of the respective author.

For example, a source from 1952 in the chapter "The most important passenger car bodies " characterizes the sports sedan as follows:

“Closed structure with a shortened interior, 1–2 rows of seats, 2–4 seats, 2 doors. Lightweight construction. Reinforced engine. Common in Germany and Romance countries. "

According to this definition or this source, all four-door sedans would at best be “sporty sedans”, but not “ sports limousines” in this sense. However, this source still mentions the Sportsedan as a separate car body :

“Closed structure, 1–2 rows of seats, 4–6 seats, 4 doors. Only common in the USA. "

Examples

Footnotes

  1. ↑ welt.de: The most illustrious names in automotive history
  2. ↑ a b Auto und Kraftrad: Motor vehicles in words and pictures - 100 cars . Verlag für Handel und Wirtschaft - Müller & Co., Munich 1952, pages 6 to 8 (8) ("The most important passenger car bodies").

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