Why no 4 door convertible?

[Erudite geezer]

Is there or has there ever been a mass produced 4/5 door convertible?

I'm assuming there must be engineering constraints? Or not?

[kambites]

It's been done, but it's quite hard to get any sort of structural integrity or side impact protection.

[parabolica]

Yes



ETA: damn you kambites!!!

[vsabljic]

There are often many compromises when converting a regular car to a 2 door convertible. With 4 doors, it must be almost impossible..

I can think of Lincoln Continental and off road stuff like Wrangler Unlimited..

[vsabljic]

[Mound Dawg]

kambites said:

It's been done, but it's quite hard to get any sort of structural integrity or side impact protection.

The head protection wasn't up to much in those either.

[PositronicRay]

Erudite geezer said:

Is there or has there ever been a mass produced 4/5 door convertible?

I'm assuming there must be engineering constraints? Or not?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm a 5 door would be an interesting challenge.

[BarbaricAvatar]

Mass produced? Don't think so, off the top of my head.

Maybach did one but that was quite exclusive, and more of a targa.




I don't think these Cad's were showroom, were they?




That's all i've got.

[aeropilot]

BarbaricAvatar said:

I don't think these Cad's were showroom, were they?

Nope, not factory built.


There were plenty of pre-WW2 four door mass produced convertibles, because they were seperate chassis/body construction - so dead easy.