A sports car is a car with smooth body lines, low height, excellent handling, and powerful power. Its purpose is to "bring racing sports into family life".

Its advent has given many ordinary people who are obsessed with racing sports the opportunity to experience racing drivers.

Therefore, sports cars can be understood as "the civilian version of racing cars" and are full of sportiness. It is a type of car characterized by high performance. It originally referred only to high-performance cars in motorsports, but now it more often refers to types with excellent performance in cars.

Sports cars are often the best-performing models of a car brand, so sports cars produced by a car factory are often used to test the technology research and development level of the car factory.

As early as the beginning of the last century, sports cars appeared in futuristic works of art. The United States was the first country in the world to popularize automobiles. The earliest sports cars also appeared in the United States. The two-seater and open-top versions of the Ford Model T may be the earliest sports cars.

Early sports cars mainly relied on increasing displacement and reducing vehicle weight to increase power and speed and were mechanically the same as other cars. The British sports car industry mainly includes four old factories: Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar, and MG. Bentley first promoted a new car in the name of "supercar" in 1926, and Bentley Boy has made a name for itself on the international racing circuit many times.

The Italian company ITALA launched a GRAND PRIX car that is more than twice as fast as the Model T. Its special structure and the characteristics of sorghum oil have become a watershed between road cars and professional racing cars. (It can be seen that the emergence of sports cars is closely related to racing cars.)

Several old German manufacturers have launched their own sports cars, among which the old BMW 328 is the world's first streamlined sports car with low wind resistance. Later, the famous technicians who had the greatest influence on sports cars, Ferdinand Porsche of Mercedes-Benz and Enzo Ferrari of fast cars, both emerged.

The engines of contemporary sports cars can have powerful engine output and are equipped with excellent suspension systems and braking systems, and the body design meets the aerodynamic requirements to reduce the drag coefficient. In addition, sports cars emphasize lightweight to improve the horsepower-to-weight ratio. Currently, many sports cars use carbon fiber materials.

The performance standards of a sports car are track lap time, straight road top speed, straight road acceleration, and handling agility. One of the more famous standards in the current racing world is the Nurburgring track record.

The test method is to test the lap speed on the same section of the track. The standard for a supercar is that the Nürburgring lap time is within 8 minutes. The current top speed of supercars exceeds 300 kilometers per hour, and the acceleration time from zero to 100 kilometers per hour is less than 4 seconds.