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Why don't Suzuki offer factory soft and hardtop models?

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23 Jan 2025 16:39 #259207 by DrRobin
I had a new MGF in 2001, which was replaced with a second hand Boxster (also 2001) in 2007, I still have the Boxster 17 years later, but it has been very much a second car.

There are many reasons not to have a soft top:

- it's nosier, the MGF was very noisy at anything over 65mph;
- my Boxster needed a new roof when the rear window split, fortunately I got a re-con one and fitted it myself;
-they aren't as secure;
-they mist up faster in winter;
-most soft tops, unless they were designed as such look a bit num with the roof down;
-at some point the soft top will leak;
-there is less space as the roof has to go somewhere when folded down.

In the UK it's seldom warm enough to go more than an hour with the roof down, then you can't hear the stereo and forget it if the wife is in the car as you usually need a wooly hat.

All of this so on three or four days a year you can enjoy the wind in your hair.

It makes me wonder why I have had a 2 seater soft top for nearly 24 years, but I remember now, I love it, but only as a second car.

TBH a sun-roof would be better, but they don't seem to fit them any longer.

Robin

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23 Jan 2025 19:22 #259208 by Filipao

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