I don't think sedan is the right word but I know what he means, sports cars shouldn't be approaching the size of a mid size or larger pickup truck. Mustangs are the same way. Insurance companies call them sports cars but they really aren't they're more of a cross between a coupe and a "boat" maybe call them a "Coat."
I guess I am betraying my age. When I started racing, there were two types of classes in SCCA - sports cars and sedans, and that's the sense I used it in, ignoring the niceties about whether they were coupes, sports sedans, whatever.
The sports car/sedan classification thing could be played from the other side too. I always admired the attitude of American Motors, reading the SCCA rule book and building a shorter wheelbase two door car they removed the rear seats from to make the SCCA include it in production class.
There are some very fast sedans - look at the modern Cadillacs for one. But speed doesn't make them sports cars and the Kappas ARE sports cars, and that's where I have the disconnect between what these days passes for a lighter weight good handling two seater and a two ton barge that overcomes avoirdupois with excessively large and powerful engines. Call me out of date, but that's the way I classify these cars and nothing is going to make me love the two ton titans, nor call them sports cars.
Just a propos the sedan/sports car discussion, part way through my racinf 'career', they merged the two types of classes into mixed GT categories and many of the small sedans turned out to be exceptionally tough competition, mostly because they were fairly light and in many instances quite stiff chassis - the early Rabbits and Datsuns are good examples.
