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Sports cars have become very soft-edged and luxurious. There was a time when a sports car was nothing more than a street legal car you could buy off the show room floor and take amateur racing. I like the idea of something a little more "hard-edged" than the current crop of psuedo sports cars. If you look at the big picture, sports cars, even super cars, have become cookie cutter copies of one another, differing only in details and styling. And there are some Japanese and South African sports cars that will put Italy's super cars to shame for a lot less money.

Something with the engineering of the KTM X-Bow, but with Italian styling, might shake up the sports car world. The X-Bow weighs 1600 pounds, it's available with 220, 260 or 300 horsepower (7.27 pounds per horsepower, 6.15 pounds per horsepower or 5.33 pounds per horsepower respectively). It costs around $50,000 USD. Colin Chapman would approve.

-G