That may not sound like much, but imagine standing on August parking lot tarmac walking around the car trying to hook all this up so you can run into the grocery store or whatever. I Had Boxster S at the time and wasn't willing to give up the one-push convenience for the 90-seconds (once you were VERY practiced at it) required for the first Spyder. Laugh if you will but I passed on this car in 2011 because of the top. I do think that the Pontiac coupe version mentioned by Thinker addressed most of our complaints but then it would not surprise me given everything else that Clutch Twice would be correct in his assessment of "I'm pretty sure the targa top didn't fit in the car if you removed it." At least with the Sky, the primary difference between it and the then current Opel GT was the badging, which helps a bit on the parts but even Opel has been sold off by GM which effectively orphaned the Opel GTs as well. These days, you also have to toss in the relatively low number of those sold and the fact that they have been orphaned which will make parts supply a consideration. After seeing that, we didn't even bother to drive one since it was ruled out because of that top. There was also the fact that there was a micro trunk that was rendered even more useless when the top was down. ![]() We had looked at them and I remember saying something to the effect that there is no excuse for a top in this day and age(2007) to be as much, if not more, of a hassle to deal with than the one on my TR6 using the latest of 1960s British sports car design. I do remember one of those "reality shows" that centered around a little race driver school/competition that used these as the track cars. I never drove one but like the look of them.
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