A grand tourer (
Italian:
Gran Turismo), (
initialised GT), is a high-performance
automobile designed for long-distance driving. Any such car could be considered a grand tourer, but the traditional and most common
body style is the
coupé (two door) with either a two-seat or a
2+2 seat arrangement. Grand tourers differ from typical
sports cars (e.g. Lotus Elise, Porsche 911) in that they are usually larger, heavier (sometimes more than 3,500 lbs), and tend to make less compromise in comfort for the sake of driving ability. For this reason, most have
front-mounted engines, which leave more space for the cabin than
mid-mounted engines. They also tend to have softer
suspensions to provide good
ride quality. However, grand tourers do have similarities with sports cars, such as their use mainly of
rear- or
four-wheel drive, and the term sports car may be used to describe a car with grand touring qualities. Very high-performance grand tourers, such as the
Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and the
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, may be considered to be
supercars.
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