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Filed under: Car Buying , Convertibles , BMW The BMW Z4 is all new for 2010, and the updated roadster will be ready for production later this spring. BMW gave the Z4 sleeker sheet metal, a folding hard top, and upgraded powertrains, but the biggest change could...
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Filed under: Car Buying , Convertibles , Coupes , Etc. , Supercars , Bugatti , Special/Limited Editions Personalized Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport - Click above for a high res gallery You can't own one, at least not right now, but maybe the Bugatti Veyron...
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Filed under: Car Buying , Convertibles , Euro , FIAT , UK Fiat 500 C - Click above for high-res gallery The hotly anticipated Fiat 500 C , which was officially unveiled earlier this month at the Geneva Motor Show , has just gotten a price in the U.K. ahead...
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Filed under: Convertibles , Coupes , Sports/GTs , Supercars , Lamborghini , Rumormill , Special/Limited Editions Lamborghini Reventon - Click above for high-res image gallery Lamborghini said it was going to make just 20 examples of the Reventon. And it did...
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Filed under: Time Warp , Convertibles , Economy , Auction Action 1990 Yugo Cabrio - Click above for an image gallery The Yugo , once the cheapest car offered in the United States, is most remembered for being the punchline of every late night comedian's opening monologue. That said, this author doesn't actually remember the Yugo being quite as bad as its detractors painted it out to be, especially in its later years when it was equipped with a 1.3L OHC engine hooked up to a 5-speed manual transmission. The ultimate expression of fine Yugoslavian automotive design would have to be the extremely rare droptop version of the classic Communist-era machine, and there just so happens to be one in pretty decent shape right now on eBay. We're not sold on this particular car's yellow over gray color palette, but it only has 53,000 miles on it and seems to have been owned by an enthusiast (of sorts). If you love classic wedge-like hatchback designs from the '80s but feel a VW Cabrio...
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Filed under: Convertibles , Sports/GTs , Audi , Misc. Auto Shows 2010 Audi TT-RS - Click above to enlarge Audi rolled out the fixed-head version of its new TT-RS a couple of weeks ago at the Geneva Motor Show , but a topless version was nowhere in sight. There's a reason for that: this weekend at Germany's Leipzig AMI show, the automaker will be expanded the stylish coupe with a open-top version. Predictably, the TT-RS Roadster gets the same 340-horsepower, turbocharged 2.5-liter five cylinder as the coupe, which in this case should get the topless TT-RS to 62 mph in just 4.7 sec by putting the power down through all four wheels. The brakes also get a major upgrade with cross-drilled rotors all around, as does the suspension. Elsewhere on the Audi stand in Leipzig, the A5 and S5 Cabrio and A4 all-road quattro will get their German premieres. Press release after the jump. Gallery: Audi TT RS and Roadster [Source: Audi] Continue reading Audi to reveal TT-RS Roadster at Leipzig Motor...
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Filed under: Concept Cars , Convertibles , Economy , Etc. , Green , Tech , Daimler , Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz F-Cell Roadster - Click above for high-res image gallery Times may be tough, but that isn't stopping Daimler from having a bit of expensive-looking fun with its trainees... so long as there's an educational bent to it. What you see before you isn't an artful series of renderings, it's an actual time-warping fuel cell concept dubbed "F-CELL Roadster." It took a year and more than 150 trainees to create, but the entire project involved using "junior employees", giving the company's up-and-coming employees a creative way to learn how alternative-fuel systems come together. The F-CELL Roadster marries Benz Patent Motor Car stylings with 21st century tech wonderfully, including that legendary vehicle's general aesthetic and proportions, along with old-meets-new technologies like carbon-fiber buckets capped in hand-stitched leather and a...
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Filed under: Trends , Convertibles , Sports/GTs , Etc. , Green , Tech , Mazda , Rumormill Click above for a high-res gallery of 20 years of the Mazda Miata/MX-5 Low weight and greater efficiency might not be the sexiest of selling points for a sports car unless you're a devotee of Lotus founder Colin Chapman's "add lightness" philosophy. Thankfully for those less-is-more enthusiasts, however, Mazda has steadily adhered to that formula with its MX-5 Miata - and now, word from the crew at GoAuto is that company engineers are working even harder to adhere to that design philosophy, with thoughts of smaller, force-fed engines and lighter curb weights dominating discussions for the next iteration of the iconic roadster. There have long been rumors of a rotary-powered MX-5, but that's probably not in the cards. A modern take on the RX-7 is supposedly being worked up to take a new version of Felix Wankel's whirling dervish of an engine zipping into the future, with the...
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