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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 01/10/2020 at 03:50 • Filed to: hour rule, Subaru, Toyota

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Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/10/2020 at 08:06

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Wow. I like it. 

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/10/2020 at 08:18

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Better than the Z!

Id still take a purpose-built convertible over it though.

Is the mx-5 the only purpose-built convertible left? (Outside of t-top imposters and supercars)

Nauraushaun > Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] 01/11/2020 at 01:14

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How many t top imposters are there?

Kar Wai Wong > Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] 01/11/2020 at 12:23

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It’s twin the Fiat 124 Spider (although the Abarth 124 GT has a removable hardtop) , BMW Z4 (if you don’ t count the Supra as the coupé), Ferrari Portofino (you could say the Roma is the coupé version), Jeep Wrangler? Corvette with it’ s removable top? Caterham, I guess alot of roofless cars of that nature could count.

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > Kar Wai Wong 01/11/2020 at 16:08

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Some good suggestions there! (124 was a gimme, Z4 I didn’t consider, but there no coupe version, so it counts!)

Corvette was designed as a hard top then had the convertibleness shoehorned in so I wouldn’t count that.

Wrangler is a good one!

Caterham and ilk (Atom, etc) are good ones. Super niche though.

I forgot the Boxster!

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/21/2020 at 11:45

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I like my suggestion from years ago, better.

think FT86 Spyder (I ‘shopped this version of the FT86 concept years ago, before the production FR-S and BRZ, LONG before ND Miata was known, let alone Miata RF.)

Manual folding hardtop.

(or powered... wouldn’t turn that down, but figured I would defer to lighter weight )

It would have a n independent roll-down rear window between the fairings, no rear seats, but a decent area under the lid for the folding top and trunk space.

I also had a cunning plan... to have it powered by a 3.4L de-stroked, over-square EZ-series Subaru flat-6 with ~300hp at full glorious song, and <66% of the price of a Boxster/Cayman as new. That with a 6MT and a torque-vectoring rear diff and some Bilsteins and Brembos…

THAT car would justify $ 35-40 K+, unlike the ancient 370Z or WRX STI, both of which are now well more than a decade old, mechanically.

Heck, it could use a Subaru 6-speed cable-shift transaxle, converted to lateral 2WD , under the trunk floor for better weight distribution, in addition to the already low center of gravity.

With the top down, and a much smaller rear window than the coupe, no rear seats or quarter windows, simplified interior, and a composite rear decklid and roof panels , this car would probably have an even lower center of gravity and very little additional weight, possibly even slightly less weight than the 86 coupe.