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The Bottom Line The 2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible's tech is a bit outdated, but this retro - stylish ragtop with its kicking stereo brings a smile to every trip.

Britain is the home of good taste in ragtops: dark colours / blacks can be combined with red tops.

The convertible alone sold 18,000 copies and was the third best - selling ragtop on the market.

Although absent in Scottsdale, the new two - toned striped convertible top is now on the car and thanks to our friends at Kerbeck Corvette, we can share the first photos of the newest ragtop Corvette from the Windy City.

Just about every auto company, from Hyundai and its entry - level models to General Motors and its top - of - the - line Cadillac, is vying for customers by touting options like all - wheel drive, anti-lock brakes and side - impact air bags — the most widely available features today — with the same fervor once reserved for ragtops and V - 8 engines.

And unlike those old ragtops from across the pond, the MX - 5 won't spend more time in the shop than on the road.

On sale since December, the New Beetle convertible resembles the original Beetle ragtop in the way its folded top rests on the rear fenders — looking like the folded top of a baby carriage.

Interesting features of this model are athletic handling, fast - opening convertible functionality on ragtop models, Award - winning styling, rapid performance, with available V8 power, and luxurious interior

The new ragtop Bug adheres to the same formula as the coupe (2.5 - liter, 2.0 - liter turbo, and 2.0 - liter turbo - diesel engines; six - speed stick, auto, or DSG transmissions), but it's the three special editions that caught our eye at this year's L.A. show.

The 2013 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible's tech is a bit outdated, but this retro - stylish ragtop with its kicking stereo brings a smile to every trip.

There are few 23 - year - old ragtops that feel as solid as this car.

The 2016 FIAT 500C is marketed as a convertible, although it really looks more like a sliding ragtop version of the regular 500 hot hatch.

I don't know about your neck of the woods, but summertime on the California coast means that you're pretty much guaranteed to see dozens and dozens of rented ragtop Mustang convertibles packed with tourists making their way slowly down some of the best driving roads in the nation.

We gathered three all - wheel - drive ragtops — one of the first 2013 Bentley Continental GTCs, an equally fresh 2012 BMW 650i xDrive convertible, and a gracefully aging 2012 Audi A5 Quattro cabriolet — so we could drive them four hours north (yes, north) of Ann Arbor to Montmorency County, Michigan, site of Rally America's popular season - opening Sno * Drift race.

By now, listing all the high - tech in this new Merc ragtop seems a bit like it should be a long excerpt from some novel named «Car and Peace, Plus.»

The Evoque ragtop will go on sale in mid-2016 starting at $ 51,470 with destination.

The RF weighs about 113 pounds more than a similarly equipped Miata ragtop, and Mazda has tweaked steering and rear suspension calibrations.

I have driven so many hardtop convertibles over the past couple of years, I am so accustomed to losing cargo space with the top down, I just assumed that this would be the case with the 370Z, forgetting that it has a traditional ragtop.

Other top - selling ragtops in 1991 included the Ford Mustang, Mercury Capri, Dodge Shadow, Pontiac Sunbird, Geo Metro, Chevrolet Cavalier, VW Cabriolet and Toyota Celica.

Although the data are still subject to change, here's what's in the works: - The Cavalier Z - 24 convertible will be dropped, but a Beretta ragtop will be added in September.

Deluxe steering wheel, factory ragtop sunroof.

It features a deluxe steering wheel, factory ragtop sunroof and a gearshift - mounted ashtray.

That's right - new 1966 GT350 convertibles.The Shelby Collection shop in Venice, Calif., will manufacture - or remanufacture - copies of the first GT350 ragtops.

When it was shown as a concept — then called the i8 Spyder — it was unclear just what sort of roof it would have; now we know it gets a folding ragtop that tucks out of sight without eating up too much cargo space.

Need for Speed Most Wanted U includes the Ultimate Speed Pack expansion, so players can take to the streets with five of the most absurdly fast cars ever made: McLaren's F1 LM, Lamborghini's minimalist artwork, the Aventador J, the track - focused Pagani Zonda R, Bugatti's reigning world speed champion, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse and Hennessey's savage 275 mile - an - hour ragtop beast, the Venom GT Spyder.

Need for Speed Most Wanted on Wii U also includes the Ultimate Speed Pack, so players can take to the streets five of the sickest, most ludicrously fast cars ever made: McLaren's F1 LM, Lamborghini's minimalist artwork, the Aventador J, the track - focused Pagani Zonda R, Bugatti's reigning world speed champion, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse and Hennessey's savage 275 mile - an - hour ragtop beast, the Venom GT Spyder.

Ragtop convertibles are nice, but aside from its weight, there's no downside to this retractable hardtop.

There is no other ragtop I know of that starts at $ 20,000 and can comfortably transport four adults.

«It will fuck me up for a year,» he predicts as he nimbly steers his silver Volkswagen Beetle ragtop through Cambridge traffic.

Even in C43 form, the new Benz ragtop doesn't come off as a hard - edged convertible version of a serious sport sedan, but rather, evokes a movie soundtrack song title repeated by this reporter much too often when writing about such cars: «Oh, to be alive and in a convertible.»

It's no worse than lopping the top off a 911 Turbo S - if you must have a 911 convertible, save yourself # 60 - 70k over the Turbo S ragtop and get the base model 911 with no roof.

Operation Ragtop - rescue.

The old - school - flavored, drive - it - yourself ride in question is a lightweight, minimalist ragtop with rear - wheel drive.

But to my backside, the Miata RF Grand Touring rides and handles pretty much like a Miata Grand Touring ragtop, which is to say, pretty well.

Sno * Drift PR guy Alex Berger, driving a new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, leads our train to «The Ranch,» an isolated section of Stage 2, deep in the thick Michigan forest, where we can park our stylish ragtops within sight of the race course, position ourselves safely behind trees, and watch the rally cars whiz by up close.

Our H1 ragtop easily conquered steep side grades, tight corners, dried arroyos, and sharp rocks with capability to spare.

Like those Z3 - derived ragtops, the new Z4 M hews to BMW's classic roadster recipe: long - nose, short - deck styling, a lightweight, rear - wheel - drive chassis, and a rev - happy, front - mounted engine.

The 315 - hp ragtop is so sweet, smooth, and special that all it takes to narrow the performance gap is the optional PDK.

Power from the 200 - hp, 1.6 - liter turbocharged four can best be described as adequate, and it's not as smooth as we'd like in a relaxed ragtop, considering the peaky turbo.

Introduced in 2013 as the Opel / Vauxhall Cascada, the Buick convertible follows the trend away from folding hardtops and features a heavy, sturdy insulated ragtop instead.

As executive editor Todd Lassa explained in our first look at the 2015 Ford Mustang coupe, the convertible is an important reminder of the Mustang's history and «image as the quintessential American ragtop.»

As the replacement for the Cabrio ragtop that disappeared from the VW lineup in 2003, the Eos won't actually arrive here until this fall as a 2007 model, but we recently had a chance to drive one extensively in - naturally - Southern California.

It's pricey, fuel economy is less than 20 mpg, the zippers - and - Velcro ragtop can be tricky to operate, and the primitive driving dynamics are — shall we say — exceptionally interactive.

The Vanquish ragtop is the first full carbon - fiber - skinned convertible in Aston's 100 - year history, and also boasting the stiffest convertible structure the Gaydon engineering team has ever created.

Despite the extra mass, acceleration feels as peppy here as it did in the lighter ragtop.

The Toyota Camry line gets a little excitement as it nears the end of its product cycle, in the form of the biggest ragtop Toyota has ever offered in North America.

I was eager to hit the road, but this GT is a convertible so I first took some time to explore the motorized ragtop.

Only 28 examples of the Speedster, for instance, will be available worldwide while 99 Shooting Brakes — that's a station wagon to you and I — bringing the total Zagatos — it was previously announced that there will be 99 Coupes and 99 ragtop Volantes built as well — available to just 325 in all.