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Hi All,


I'm looking for people's views about open topped motoring. (For a piece I'm writing)


Anyone out there car to share their views pleas? Just what is that people like about them? Is it the wind in the face/hair, the sense of openness, the pose value, and so i guess vanity of them?


What's your view?


Eric

PS Edited to remove my cack typing mistooks...

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snorky

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teh UK is the biggest purchaser of convertible cars in teh Europe IIRC



this is more an indication of how superficial society has become than a wind in the hair issue.


People with convertibles never go anywhere, they just pootle around the streets


they are impractical / insecure / too cold or too hot / etc etc etc

Brendan

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The fun in driving them! You always feel like you're going faster with the top down. Also feeling the sun on a hot day.


The British weather is unfortunately not ideally suited for them. This is peculiar as there seem to be comparatively very many of them in Britain.

Brendan

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For some reason a lot of it depends on age. They earn their coolness with age. The BMW E30 convertible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ch4.jpg is a prime example of a car that was the quintessential flash yuppie-mobile but has evolved before our eyes into a cool classic.
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LostThePlot Wrote:

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> Why the convertible versions?



Like I said before. The fun in driving them! You always feel like you're going faster with the top down. Also feeling the sun on a hot day.


And I will add the feeling of being out in the open. I have had the pleasure of careering through the desert with the top down and the radio loud and it is a sublime experience. (Although it was in a golf and not a mustang unfortunately but in my head I was driving a mustang.)


I suppose I can also be a bit of a show off. Although I would hesitate before driving around London with the top down for fear of pigeon poo or being hit by a stray kebab.

vikhibby

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I used to be the proud owner of an MR2 and loved every minute of driving it. Cold day blue sky top down and heater blasting. Had to sell it as it was too low for my mum to get out of and being a good daughter with the choice of selling the car or selling my mum and the car had to go!


Brilliant though I always look to see how comfortable or uncomfortable people look when driving with the top down.


Worst offenders are those who have a convertible but always drive around with the top up... there's no excuse...

LostThePlot

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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> I would love a convertible moggy - anyone want to

> get rid of one?

Lots for sale, but needs big money for a good one now...


> For a short while I drove a 7 series convertible

> which was really cool. Never had any probs parking

> it in Peckham - guess no one envied me!

You shewer? Didn;t think there was ever a 7 Series covertible, that being the fat member of the boards car and all that. Or do you mean an Austin 7... ;-)

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