Richard,
You, as all of us, are certainly entitled to your opinion, however, I have owned one of every worthwhile, "sports car", you can name (and several you can't), and I will assure you that when you
watch a C-6 with an automatic, or a 911 with tiptronic, eat your stickshift Xfire without stopping to spit out the bones, you'll have a tough time convincing those folks that their cars are not, "sports
cars". When I started driving, well over 50 years ago, there were no mass-produced automatic
trannys and air conditioning hadn't come along yet, either. According to your definition, should all of those cars acquire the, "sports car" nomenclature? Are all of today's vehicles, equipped with air
conditioning to be labeled, "luxury cars"?

I continue to maintain that a vast majority (if not all) of late model vehicles, when designed with no clutch, will bring more money, AND sell quicker, than their counterparts with a manual shift. I believe
this is a given, excluding a few folks who refuse to see the light, regardless of fact.