[sperry]

The strict/traditional definition of a sports car is a closed wheels, two seater, with no roof. Off the top of my head, the only sports cars for sale today are the Miata, Elise, and Boxster, since the s2000 and solstice/sky got canned. And I guess there are some kit cars out there like the Caterham Super7 or the FFM Cobra replicas that are true sports cars.

Cars people call sports cars, like the 911, Vette, most Ferraris, etc are all actually GT cars. Definitions from the 20's aren't all that useful today since the lines between genres have been so blurred over 100 years of car design. My point is that it's a futile exercise to argue about whether or not an Impreza is a "sports car" when cars that people almost universally agree are sports cars actually aren't.