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ISSUE 085
JULY 2015
EDITOR’S
RANT
TIM KEEN
CONVERTIBLES
AREN’T HAIR-
DRESSERS CARS
ANYMORE. GOT IT?
Mention a convertible version of any fast car, and sooner or
later, you’re going to get some blowhard huffing about a
“hairdresser’s car.” “It’s not a real driver’s car,” they grumble,
cataloguing yet another stand against people enjoying
themselves in their shrivelled, joyless hearts. Here’s the thing:
they’re wrong. They haven’t always been wrong – but they’re
wrong now.
We’ve got a brace of drop-tops in this issue, and there’s
nary a curling wand or blowdryer to be seen. The days of a
convertible being made by oxy-cutting the roof off a coupe
are long gone – now you have parallel development programs,
where the whole platform has been designed to support a
convertible from the get-go… or in the case of the F-Type, the
convertible actually coming first. The roof doesn’t have to be
a vital element of the car anymore. And when car makers are
using ultra-stiff combinations of steel, aluminium, carbon fibre
and witchcraft, you’d have to be very sensitive indeed to
detect any body flex from cars like the Corvette Stingray or
Lamborghini Aventador Roadster (see page 112), or the
Ferrari California T and Porsche 911 Turbo S convertible (on
page 120), or the new all-wheel-drive version of the Jag
F-Type (page 60.) Sensitive, or delusional.
And here’s the thing: like blondes, convertibles have more
fun. There’s nothing quite like cruising up the coast, or carving
up the mountains, with the sound of the engine and the rush
of air pouring into the cabin, and the sun on your face and
your whoops of delight scaring the cyclists. Look at that photo
of the Lambo and the Vette beachside in LA. How could you
rather be locked up inside, behind glass, on a day like that?
Name one thing that’s bad about it. Okay, besides skin cancer.
If you’re in the tin top-or-nothing camp, because once you
drove a convertible Firebird and you would have set a
personal best getting home from Mitre 10 but the body
corkscrewed when you were going through the roundabout at
90… try one of the modern breed of convertibles. On a sunny
day, on a beautiful road. We promise you’ll enjoy it. Just
remember the sunscreen.
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