You don't need high capacity assault style sporting features on a car. Manual transmissions are sporting features. Any car with two or more sporting features is a sports car and no civilian needs to own something like that for transportation.
Well, where I live automatic transmission is an extra feature that you pay extra for. And I thought that automatic transmission allows you generally to accelerate faster, because you can have much more gears and gear switching is faster as well. So to me that seems like a sport feature.