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kleinbl00  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No One Knows What "Sports Car" Actually Means Anymore

Here's the thing -

Honda calls it a coupe. This is an easily-defendable statement to make because it's a 2-door hardtop. It might also be referred to as a hatchback, which Honda has used in the past. A 1990 Prelude, on the other hand, could be called a coupe... but also a sedan, but not a hatchback:

The confusion is "readily accepted terms" vs. "weird corner case terms." For example, here's Car & Driver speculating in 2013 what a 2015 Mustang SEDAN would look like:

Count the doors.

So yeah. Tomatoes are fruit, and if you put them in fruit salad, you're an idiot. Then when you write an entire article about why everyone is wrong for hating on your tomato fruit salad, you're a douche.