cabriolet vs coupe purchase regret
Rennlist Member
Joined: Apr 2018
Posts: 522
Likes: 170
From: Miami, FL
Instructor
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 197
Likes: 47
The lines of the car with the convertible are just not pleasing to me. I love the Porsche 911. Always have even since childhood. But if they only sold the cab I would have to own something else. They just don’t do anything for me.
Rennlist Stories
The Best Porsche Posts for Porsche Enthusiasts
Porsche's Top 5 Most Questionable Naming Decisions
Verdad Gallardo
Pogea Racing's 964 Porsche 911 Reimagination Stands Out in a Crowded Field
Verdad Gallardo
6 Convertible Top MYTHS Most People Don't Understand!
Michael S. Palmer
2026 Porsche 911 Club Coupe is Spectacular, And Everything Wrong with the Porsche Market
Joe Kucinski
Talos Takes Your 991 Porsche 911 GT3 to the Next Level for a Cool $1.13 Million
Verdad Gallardo
9 Vehicles Porsche Helped Engineer that Aren't Porsches
Verdad Gallardo
9 Features and Characteristics That Only Porsche People Understand
Verdad Gallardo
I've Written 500 Rennlist Articles: Here's How Porsche Has Changed Along the Way
Joe Kucinski
10 Most Unnecessary Porsches Ever Built (And Why We Love Them)
Verdad Gallardo
Rennlist Member
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 784
Likes: 206
From: South West Florida
"The lines of the car with the convertible are just not pleasing to me." I guess you spend your time looking at your car more than driving it. For everyday street driving the sun, sounds, the wind and the openness that the cab gives me far outweighs any slight advantage the coupe has in looks.
Lets do the math in exterior looks:
Coup > Cab Top Up
Cab > Coupe Top down
So statistically a tie!
As for skin cancer, as a balding man (lucky my height hides my bald spot), I always wear a baseball cap, and usually drive with long sleeve shirts.
I tried a coupe once. Looked great on the outside but was dark on the inside. Sunroof doesn't help (look up and you do not se the sky, you see the window frame and roof, the sky is really for the back passengers (like they exist).
Targa is heaviest, and slowest, plus $$$ and if its out of warranty and fails......
Lets do the math in exterior looks:
Coup > Cab Top Up
Cab > Coupe Top down
So statistically a tie!
As for skin cancer, as a balding man (lucky my height hides my bald spot), I always wear a baseball cap, and usually drive with long sleeve shirts.
I tried a coupe once. Looked great on the outside but was dark on the inside. Sunroof doesn't help (look up and you do not se the sky, you see the window frame and roof, the sky is really for the back passengers (like they exist).
Targa is heaviest, and slowest, plus $$$ and if its out of warranty and fails......
