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"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390) 04/01/2014 at 17:19 • Filed to: Focus ST

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40 years apart, my dad and I getting sporty cars. The apple doesn't fall far from the bush does it? :)

tromoly > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 04/01/2014 at 17:42

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Are you calling a Fiesta a sports car?

ly2v8-Brian > tromoly 04/01/2014 at 18:01

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Yeah confused by that as well.

gabdere > tromoly 04/01/2014 at 18:53

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Is a hot hatch a sport car? In my book, yeah.

By the way it's a Focus

tromoly > gabdere 04/01/2014 at 19:24

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Um, may I ask what your rational for that is? And sorry that I didn't know it was an ST, all the images I found are of the base model.

Milky > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 04/01/2014 at 19:46

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Its a lovely hot hatch … but its still a hot hatch.

gabdere > tromoly 04/01/2014 at 20:02

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Dont wanna be rude, but before saying what is a sports car and what's not, maybe you should learn the difference between a Focus a Fiesta and a ST

tromoly > gabdere 04/01/2014 at 20:56

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Look, it was an honest mistake, I do not follow the styling of road-based vehicles all that close. Let me give you an example.

2014 Fiesta.

2014 Focus.

2014 Focus ST.

Now, which of the top two pictures looks most like the OP's picture? As I said, I do not follow vehicle styling, when I Googled "Ford Focus" I got the middle picture, which looks less like the OP's picture than the also-Googled top picture of a Fiesta. Does that better clear up why I was mistaken on the vehicle model?

With that cleared up, I am still curious as to your opinion on why a "hot hatch" is a sports car.

gabdere > tromoly 04/01/2014 at 21:03

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Let met help you. Fine, it comes from Wikipedia but hey it sums it up. Hot hatch : Hot hatch (shortened from hot hatchback ) is a high-performance derivative of a car body style consisting of a three- or five- door hatchback automobile .

Your mistake was honest though, but don't rain of people's parades!

tromoly > gabdere 04/01/2014 at 21:20

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High Performance =/= Sports Car.

But I'm done, it's not worth my time posting in here anymore.

gabdere > tromoly 04/01/2014 at 21:34

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Come on! Right, but you shouldn't have post here in the first place

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > gabdere 04/01/2014 at 21:34

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Well I know it's a hot hatch, but the way I see it, it's the "sports car" variant of a regular hatchback; I didn't want to say we but a sports car and a hot hatch, so I combined them into one category. If that makes any sense?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Milky 04/01/2014 at 21:36

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OK, so apparently because everyone's making a big deal over ONE word, I've changed "sports" to "sporty" and it sounds stupid saying sporty. :(

gabdere > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 04/01/2014 at 21:36

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I never questioned the fact that it made sense and I agree with you on that-from a guy that owns a hot hatch ;)

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > gabdere 04/01/2014 at 21:56

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Oh! Thumbs up!