I see so many of these in Tampa where I live. I throw up whenever I see one of them. $37k is $57k overpriced.

The chrysler product is a little more innovative, with the choice of top materials, but why would you want to sacrifice your trunk for a soft top? Also, this car looks all wonky as a coupe.

Mustang? yes of course. PLease make more fuel efficient fun engines. BMW? 60K boys and girls. get real.

Saab, yes. Miata, of course, Eos – only in white. It also suffers from wonky tail styling. Also expensive. Gotta put the roof soemwhere. Top down, its a looker, tho.

I actually I was interested in a ford crown victoria convertable. Kinda like the last gasp of the genre.

Which would you rather do, drink a cup full of monkey snot or slide down a razor blade into a pool of alcohol.

I also refuse to go to Starbucks. We brew our coffee at home. Can’t justify the $5 coffees… VBG!

I miss cheap coffees in Italy. $1.25 would get us all sorts of good coffees.

Convertibles are a family man’s compromise between a motocycle and a regular car. Selling the motorcycle this spring though. Two small kids in the house, feel too vulnerable on the bike in traffic (too many distracted drivers talking on cellphones). No longer immortal like I was at 25 yrs old.

It helps that most people see the “Porsche” badge first, and instead of questioning my masculinity (despite my girlfriend in the seat beside me… who does drive/race the car as well), they just write me off as a complete prat.

P.S. I refuse to wear a blue tooth ear piece or pop the collar on my shirt….

The child safety seats help verfiy my membership in the hetero-club… VBG! (not that I waste any time worrying what another person’s lifestyle preference is) VBG!

You guys are missing out!!! I drive a VW Cabrio everyday. Yeah, a girly car. Drop the top, put on my sunglasses and ride… Best part is I can put our two kids in the back, wife up front and we can ride together. Great overnighter car or day tripper car. As much as I like the two seater convertibles, a backseat is for now a requirement.

The car started out as my wife’s daily driver (and she is starting to drive it again) but after child #2 arrived, she couldn’t lift him in and out of the backseat so she began to drive the CR-V.

Car has been a hoot. Rollbar for crashes, 115 HP and 35 mpg, tops out at speeds well in excess of what it would take to put me in jail. My old 90 HP 1984 version would top out at ~125 mph, and cruise at 100 mph all day. I’ve had this car up to 100 mph and I suspect it would have the same top end as the 1984.

Now i m confused b/w sedans n SUV by Toyota. Can anyone help me out??? Budget $ 25K

Absolutely agree with this, I cannot remember the last time I saw a man under the age of 150 drive a convertible. So yes, they are chick (read old hen)cars, if you think back to the dragons that used to drive around in the LeBaron convertibles, well you will see them again driving these bargain buckets, that is if they are still alive.

Not counting rentals in Hawaii and Florida:

Maybe it is because I live (Atlanta metro) and travel mostly in the south, but it is rare to see a male driving a covertible, except the balding pate of a recently divorced Doctor or Real Estate Broker does appear in a Corvette or BMW occasionally. (I am picking on two acquaintances.) By their reports, the rag and hard tops are not chick magnets. The other 99.9% convertibles seem to be driven by females edging towards or past grandmotherhood.

My wife, who like me, rates a senior discount, loves her Solara. She looked at the others with prices below the stratosphere, and it was a no-brainer, for her. It does ride and drive better than my panic model older Lexus, but the dealership is not as great.

I wear a hat and sunglasses when I take her Solara for service or to get it washed.

Convertibles are not what a guy would take to a rodeo, race, business meeting or to the local package store, are they?

On the front wheel SHE uses more e brakes than the rear wheel drive.

You can drift a rear wheel drive without using a E BRAKE it is called power drift.

LOL Now that’s funny, AKM!

I also found the reviewer’s comparison of the Sebring’s interior to Obama’s rhetoric hilarious, another roffle there from me.

You mean you can’t distinguish a GTO from a G6? That says a lot about the GTO’s styling (and why it never took off like it should have).

Besides, drifting a FWD car isn’t much fun, no matter what engine or body it’s attached to.

The difference between an Accord/Altima ragtop and a Solara would be a person would actually enjoy looking at and driving the former.

By the way Ask WHY ON EARTH THEY USED A G6 to race? if it’s piece of crappy car it should fall apart on the race track

http://pontiacunderground.autos.yahoo.com/motion.php?page=0

Please if you compare a boring Toyota with a Pontiac G6 it will be a humiliation for those NASCAR fans out there or should I say red necks

Yes, the two share the same GM Epsilon platform, however, the G6 is on the “extended” version, with a slightly longer wheelbase. Thats where the similarity ends (and I suggest you drive both, they are very different in character).

But here, in military format is why the SAAB 9-3 is definitely a better car (where I might actually buy one):

-those wheezier engines are actually a lot more fun to flog than the V6 pushrod design. They rev easier, and the turbo-lag is minimal.
The modern design developed in Europe by SAAB shows through, they are good engines, the V6’s are average.

-The SAAB comes with a manual, not the best manual, but a decent one, which greatly adds to the enjoyment. The Pontiacs automatic was horrible beyond belief. I have spent many an hour with the G6 sedan on government trips, and the 4spd auto on the G6 Convertible is no different. Horrible.

-The interior quality on the SAAB is worlds better (and I mean entire planetary systems better). GM saw fit to endow the SAAB with soft-touch plastics and materials almost everywhere. The Pontiac didn’t. The difference is quite substantial.

-And the SAAB is a bit stiffer. Still quivers worse than the Chrysler, but not nearly as badly as the Pontiac.

“GM and Chrysler better thank their lucky stars that there isn’t an Accord and Altima convertible.”

Why? Toyota already did (the Solara) and that did so well they canceled it.

why? In the winter it’s freakin cold in a soft top and flippin during an accident with a soft top is unimaginable.

This car is great for retiring baby boomers.