Which powerplant are they using?
I understand the marketing side of it . . . it's the kind of thing that has worked for US automakers for years. Make a car with enough style to be assumed as a sports car to the less educated consumer . . . then market it as a sports car . . . basically by calling it a "Type" anything . . . lol . . . or adding an "R" or "S" or "GT" . . . to the name . . . and you have a car that will sell much better than the real performers . . .
The real performers have to be unearthed by talking to people that work on cars or by talking to your next door neighbor that just happens to have a brand spanking new 2001 Maxima SE because it was "purty" . . .