The English name of the sports car is Sports Car, and its purpose is to "bring motorsport into family life." Its advent has given many ordinary people obsessed with motorsport the opportunity to experience racing drivers, so the sports car can be understood as "a civilian version of racing", full of sporty nature. The body of traditional sports cars is two-door, that is, there are only two left and right doors, two seats or 2+2 seats (the two rear seats are particularly narrow, such as the Porsche 911), and the top cover is a foldable soft canopy or hard top. Sports cars usually have two seats and are light, and their engines are generally more powerful than ordinary car engines, so they have good acceleration and higher speeds. The design of sports cars focuses on handling. Due to the low body, the passability is relatively poor. The more advanced the sports car, the more obvious this feature is. The front-engine sports car has a long front and a smaller trunk at the back. The rear-engine and mid-engine sports cars don't even have a trunk, just a small space under the front cover of the front for a spare tire. The common characteristics of sports cars are excellent power, dynamic appearance and smooth lines.

The following categories do not include all sports cars, there are still gaps. Some two-door cars and even four-door sedan cars are also called sports cars, which are not included in the entry. Some sports cars have at least two attributes, especially high-performance cars with a car shape and superior acceleration, such as the BMW M4, Audi RS5 and Cadillac CTS-V. In addition, due to the differences in everyone's understanding, the attributes of the same model may not be the same in the minds of different people.