I'm not saying living in the US makes you guys un/able to understand soft v hard tops ... only that we get serious weather here, and in vancouver especially, a LOT of rain ... dampness has got to be the worst feeling ever ... forget cold, forget ice, even forget heat ... if you're damp you're unhappy ... and with a soft top [i dont care how good the quality of it is] there's no good way to keep damp out

ok maybe you keep it in the garage when its damp ... thats 10 mo of the yr ... and guess what, your garage is the largest connection to outside your house has, so its STILL damp ... so that didn't really help much


How does the designer get an easier time w. a soft top? ... there's all kinds of extra reinforcements in the body that the designer has to account for when there's no fixed roof

oh, and: traditions are ment to evolve ... if everybody kept strictly w. tradition then there would be no tecchnological advancements because 'its just not done that way'