I think the term supercar has suffered from inflation in recent years or might have changed its meaning.
From what I've read, it was first coined when a motoring journalist reviewed the Lamborghini Miura in the sixties, as a way to praise its innovative packaging and engineering and how that translated to the road, basically better than just any car, a supercar.
That happened to be (coincidentally?) a mid-engined high performance sportscar, maybe if he wrote a glowing review on a Rolls-Royce or Bentley at the time that term would now be used to describe big luxurious limos.
I first heard the word supercar when it was used to describe limited production sportcars like the Porsche 959, Ferrari F40, Jaguar XJ220, etc.
Cars which were so special due to a combination of extremely high prices, incredible performance and, very important, rarity due to them being produced in very small numbers, that the only way to describe them seemed to be supercars.
Any regular production car from Porsche or Ferrari was still being called a sportscar.
Now any base model from Ferrari or Lamborghini is called a supercar or when it doesn't quite live up to expectations handlingwise, a hypercar.
Granted, those base models outperform those eighties and nineties supercar dinosaurs by quite a margin but the term supercar is a bit inept to describe a single category, it's an adjective to illustrate something beyond the ordinary but a very arbitrary and subjective one.
It doesn't distinguish between exotic production cars or rare limited run cars anymore, neither does it reflect anything performancewise or other which makes one car more
super than another.
It's therefor a bit meaningless now and open for interpretation but the common consensus seems to be anything that has 2 doors, goes beyond 180 mph and
looks like one.
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