I would go for a coupe with no sunroof, but thats just me. Im tall and I could have used the precious extra inches of headroom with no sunroof.

Aside from that, I LOVE the coupe look and how timeless it is. For me to own a cabrio, it must either be really modern or really vintage....

 

I have often times thought about getting a cab. I agree that the fresh air and the ability to enjoy the elements while driving (including the increased sound from the flat six) is tempting. I also really like the lines of the cab, even with the top down. I think it looks agressive, but it's hard to explain..

However, having owned four 993 coupés I really think I need to try a cab in order to know if it's for me. Like many others, I think I am more of a coupe guy. I like the integrity of the coupe and if I was driving in the city I would most certainly not have the top down if I had a cab. I simply don't like people staring at me. This among other things has lead me to believe a cab is not for me. Increased wind noise while on the highway, reduced visability with the top up, increased maintenance cost of the top itself and the mechanism driving it, getting dust into the cabin etc. etc. I totally understand why one would own a cab and I think for sunday crusing it's perfect. I just think that you are either a cab person or not. But I could be wrong. Great thread regardless.

 

TARGA..... Problem solved. Just sayin.

 

Cab guy here. Interesting comments. I agree that people tend to be cab or coupe guys in general, obviously some have or have had both. Market price is determined by supply and demand. Fewer cabs, fewer cab buyers. More coupes, and more coupe buyers. It's all in the ratio of each, and that ratio can change over time... and none of us really know how it will change. I would say that based on asking prices, it does seem that better deals can be had on cabs, but that's just casual observation on my part.

I don't really care what prices do, I'm not selling, and bought at the "discounted" cab rate anyway so if I did sell, I'd be in the same relative position as someone who bought and then sold a coupe.

Living in Atlanta, I only have a few months that the top has to stay up, and if people want to stare at me, more power to them... if it gets creepy, I can always give them the special single finger wave.

 

The hell with the groundhog! All this talk of cabs must mean it's close to spring

 

Good idea. The're quite rare now. I've bee tracking them on eBay for years and they are getting fewer and fewer... I missed a beautiful Silver over Chesnut a few years ago.

 

+993. Tell me this car isn't beautiful even with the top up.

 

Coupe or cab, it's personal preference. In my opinion, either are great for different reasons. About the post of rattles with a cab, my 95 with 62,000 miles is rattle free. That was the first thing I noticed on the test drive. For a 15 year old vehicle, it was so "tight".

 

I also agree with the Barrett Jackson mantra, "If the top goes down, the price goes up."

 

While I've only had steel roofed cars after I rolled my MG Midget many years ago, I do have some fond memories of trips we made with my wife's 300SL:



Particularly, a night in October, we were driving through the Umatilla National Forest in Oregon. The car hummed along the deserted twisty road, and you could smell the pines. As the temperature dropped to 6 C degrees, I suggested we stop and put up the top and she replied: "Just leave it down, and turn on the heater."

With the windows and wind blocker up, that car was quiet and turbulence free, at speed.

 

That quote was attributed to his wife, "mama jackson."

 

Sweet...