Convertible drivers - why keep the roof up?
Discussion
swisstoni said:
SWoll said:
Flip Martian said:
There's a lot of grown ups on here who like arguing over nothing. Eesh...
Are you new to PH? You can't offer an alternate view without an argument ensuing, fortunately that's where all the fun is to be had. 
k-ink said:
I'm pretty sure anyone wanting to score "macho points" already drives a pick up with a name like "Barbarian Rapist".
My car is purple.. I don't think "macho points" are on the cards. But it was lovely to potter along the roads today with the roof down.. Mind it got a touch hot!
NerveAgent said:
Ok maybe macho wasn't the right word with convertibles 
However its hard to deny there is a certain subset of owners who think it is some sort of badge of honour to have the roof down from the first sunny day in March until November and look down their noses as that who don't.
Nah, we look down our noses at them, all year topless......... However its hard to deny there is a certain subset of owners who think it is some sort of badge of honour to have the roof down from the first sunny day in March until November and look down their noses as that who don't. Mind you, comes to something when the drip on the end of your nose freezes.......
monamimate said:
So my answer is to say, it's a free world, put your roof up or down, whatever pleases you... but it seems many don't like such a relaxed view, and have an axe to grind either to prove that roof down is a moral obligation or that convertible owners are all posers!
Yet you choose to have a go at me!
Sorry that I'm Mr Reasonable-in-the-Middle!
No-one has suggested that all convertible drivers are posers or that they have a moral obligation to drop the top, you're just overstating in order to try and make a point. Of course everyone can drop their roof's as they please, I just don't understand why people don't do so at every reasonable opportunity when they've had to make financial and/or practical sacrifices in order to give them the option to do so. Just seems a bit lazy and wasteful to me in most cases, but each to their own of course.Yet you choose to have a go at me!
Sorry that I'm Mr Reasonable-in-the-Middle!
SWoll said:
Indeed. A colleague has a 435i convertible and pretty much refuses to drive it with the roof up. Fair play to him for his commitment but I do sometimes have to question if it's a bit much, especially when temperatures are in single digits...
Just put the heater on and all is good. 
SWoll said:
Flip Martian said:
There's a lot of grown ups on here who like arguing over nothing. Eesh...
Are you new to PH? You can't offer an alternate view without an argument ensuing, fortunately that's where all the fun is to be had. Arguing about what though? Pardon me for asking a straight forward question. If many in here said these things to people's faces....ah but of course that's not what they do. Easier to do behind a keyboard.
Or if they did, they'd just get a reputation as a grumpy pillock with no sense of humour.
SWoll said:
Indeed. A colleague has a 435i convertible and pretty much refuses to drive it with the roof up. Fair play to him for his commitment but I do sometimes have to question if it's a bit much, especially when temperatures are in single digits...
Its not - as others have said, there is something about driving in the open air in any weather. Coat, gloves, hat - sorted. Granted not everyone's cup of tea but there's nothing wrong with anyone who likes doing that either.pthelazyjourno said:
otolith said:
That the roof came off an Elise was incidental, bought it for countless reasons but removeable roof wasn't one of them. Hardly ever removed the roof on either of my Elises.
Flip Martian said:
Ozzie Osmond said:
Flip Martian said:
I saw more convertibles with roofs up than down. Why?
Over the weekend I saw lots of saloons with their windows closed. Why?
Jasandjules said:
SidewaysSi said:
I have had my Elise 3 years and not once have I driven it with the rood off.
Whyever not?
Edited by SidewaysSi on Saturday 27th August 08:56
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