GM tried to do it just a few years back, with astoundingly poor
results. Anyone remember the Geo Metro convertible ? Even here in fad
crazy California, with top-down weather 350 days a year, no one bought
them, in spite of fairly good reviews.
Randall
David Massey wrote:
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> 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.
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