Trace it back - when did you decide you needed a convertible

Not long before I got the zed while I was still looking for a sports car, but once I test driven one it had to be a convertible - put me right off the 350Z, it's convertible version looks awful :(.
 
Iike a few other posters. I was 18 and purchased a 1974 MG Midget RWA in Red and it was ace :D

......27 years later I'm on my seventh and gone all grown up :(

......Boxster next :D

......as for why, this looked so cool to a 12 year old, oh my

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another one moving off bikes, and then waiting for son to reach that suitably impressionable age that no wifey logic would stop the purchase :)
 
Always wanted one since my 20's. Revelation that I needed one, came when friend and her children died tragically, and I realised life was literally too short!
 
When I test drove a 2.0i roadster, then I realised what would make it even better... A mahoosive engine!

...actually I took a 3.2 VW Eos in part ex at work... Could have been that which sparked it...
 
Try a year of open top motoring never like it and never missed it .
Maybe if I lived in the south of France I would think different 8)
 
Stems from when my nana took me out for a drive round the estate - in her pink suzuki vitara soft top .. with cheesy pop songs blaring out the speakers. I was about 14 at the time.

First car was a Micra, won't go into too much detail, went for a look around a car supermarket with my dad when I was 18 and bought my first convertible, a Ford StreetKa, being a convertible and having heated seats I absolutely loved it, had the roof down that much during the colder weather I cracked the back plastic window.

Went back to the same car supermarket 2.5 years later, saw the Z4 and knew I had to have it. Phoned my dad up to come and have a look/test drive it, his last words before ending the phone call were "have a look for something more sensible". As if. I would never have anything but a convertible.
 
i've always wanted one, not just a Z4

after i got my first house at21 thought it would be a while till i could afford a brand new (car) convertible, decided to check out leases on 1 series and the dealer sprung the Z4 on my, paid my deposit couple days later and loved it since..

people usually say to me "do it while you can, kids will be soon" i just decided to get a 5 door 1 series for my girlfriend so wouldn't have to face getting rid of it early :thumbsup:
 
it started for me when i used to work for Volvo and had a go in a C70 brand new! it was crappy weather but i still put the roof down and drove round in a brand new 40k Volvo! new i had to have a convirtable from then!
 
I think I wanted a Z4 first and convertible second. The Zed sold me on convertibles... would definitely consider one again in the future. Has to be something designed as a vert though - no saloons!
 
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