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Originally Posted by Rampage

I like the looks of the A70 and I was OK with the looks of the A80. For some reason I always thought the A80 looked like it needed more tire. I never considered either of them a sports car like my 280Z was. I ended up owning an example of each in the mid to late 90s. My opinion of them did not change. They were both very nice cruisers but I felt that they were too softly sprung to be very sporty. Both were quick in a straight line and sounded great.

My favorite 90s Japanese car was the RX-7. That and the NSX are the only ones that I really considered a sports car. To this day, I still think it has the best looking bodywork ever put on a sports car. The Nissan and Mitsubishi were big overweight cars and not very sporting. I drove all of them except the NSX back in the 90s when I was looking to buy. I ended up with the A80 Supra but I only kept it for 6 months before moving on.

I guess because I actually experienced/owned those cars, I do not put them on a pedestal quite as high as some folks do. One caveat, I drove all these cars in stock or near stock form the way they came from the factories. Ironically, I never owned a RX-7. I came close a few times but things never quite worked out.

The term "sports car" has been so diluted in the last 30 years it has pretty much lost all meaning.