Re: triumph baack

[Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>]

Most cars today are Unibody and cutting off the top ruins the integrity of car. 
 It is very much more difficult to make a sturdy
convertible than a hard top and is not uncommon for the convertible to weigh 
much more than its hardtop counterpart.  Check the road
test results of the Corvette coupes and convertibles and you'll see what I mean.

Joe

David Massey wrote:
> 
> Message text written by Gary Nafziger
> >Can someone address this question?
> 
> How come we can get 8 or 9 thousand dollar hyundia's
> 
> but we can't get 8 or 9 thousand dollar cars like that with the top cut
> off?
> <
> 
> Perhaps it's because it is cheaper to build a car with a fixed top.
> Perhaps it is because it is cheaper to build cars in larger volume and the
> market for convertibles is not big enough to attain the economies
> attainable with the fixed top version.  Perhaps the drop top crowd aren't
> interested in a chopped version of an econobox.  Perhaps it is because a
> chopped top version of an econobox won't pass the US mandated crash tests.
> 
> I don't know.  But there could be many reasons.
> 
> Dave