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Originally Posted by Sharp11
I don't mind folding hardtops on two-seaters, where the mechanism can be made small and light and designed to fit in the same space as the soft top, as it does with the Mazda Miata.
On large cars I'm not a fan; it's too cumbersome - three pieces, lots of mass and levers and stuff ...... eh, I like the soft top.
The price of the 128 soft top doesn't seem too bad.
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I was going to mention that. The salesman from my Miata (he's a cool guy, still works there) was showing me the new folding Maita hard tops. Very slick. Very simple. They have their own completely separate compartment the top folds into so there's no intrusion into the trunk. You could completely stuff the trunk full and it'd have zero impact on the folding hard top. That the folding hard top only weighs 40-80 lb. (can't remember which) more than the soft top is sweet, too.
Mazda sure did a hellva job on the new Miata.
Now if they'd only get rid of the frigg'n door panel cup holders and that thing in the passenger foot well the car would be perfect.