Where was the term "sports car" first used?

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?When and where was the term "sports car" used??

It seems that the term is almost as old as automobiles themselves and
dates back to the time when "cars" were beginning to be widely used
for sporting events and those events were, in turn, reported by the
media or written about in books and magazines by different authorities
on the subject.

?The concept of a sports car was first associated with racing and
dates back to the first motor racing event, the Paris-Rouen Trial,
which made its debut in 1894. Such cars (usually two-seaters and
high-powered for their time) as the Italian Isotta-Fraschini (1908),
the U.S. made Thomas Flyer Model L (1909), the Spanish Hispano Suiza
Alfonso VIII (1912), and the U.S. Stutz Bearcat Series F (1914) were
what would be considered sports cars of their day, but the actual
expression ?sports? for a car model did not appear until the early
1920s. The first appearance in print that the Oxford English
Dictionary lists for the use of ?sports? in reference to a car type is
1925 and for the term ?sports cars? is 1927?

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The term SPORT CAR first found its way into print in a 1927
publication entitled, ?Oil? by Upton Sinclair (page 80)

?But that didn't trouble Mr. Bankside, who had already . . . bought
himself . . . a big new limousine, also a ?SPORT-CAR???

The term SPORTS CAR first found its way into print a year later in a
1928 publication entitled, ?Proceedings of the Institute of Automobile
Engineers? (page 316):

?With regard to the acceleration of SPORTS CARS, I agree that rough
running and noise are taken for power development.?


 

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