poSSum

When we travel, we take stuff like clothes, computers, car wash supplies, lawn chairs, coolers, etc along. They all need to go somewhere. We use the trunk and the folded down backseat. On those rare occasions when bitter cold or extreme precipitation causes us to travel with the roof up, we find it a challenge to find a place to store the tonneua covers. IIRC, T-tops cars have fancy little holders at the bottom of the hatch well, pretty much using all of that space. So my question to you, "How do you travel, meaning vacation, with the T's out?

HTWLSS

Because stowing the T-tops during a road trip takes away your luggage space.

dream '94 Z28

Watch it there...we're not all black turtle necks, overly trendy black glasses and what ever else you mentioned....

Some of us are required to use both sides of our brain.

dream '94 Z28

From the looks of the C-pillars, the concept seems to have only moved the blind spot further rearward. No improvement from my initial impressions.

poSSum

The David Pearson answer.

PacerX

Dear Lord. You have GOT TO be kidding.

If it bothers you that much, leave 'em on the roof.

Guess what's going to go into the little trunk space an F5 convertible is going to have...

That's right, the top.

PacerX

Color coordinating your tie while dreaming about new floral arrangements only utilizes ONE side of your brain.

HTWLSS

One step ahead of you. There's more than one reason I don't own a t-top car. That's why I prefer a hard top in a coupe. Or better yet, drive a convertible so messing with the t-tops aren't even an issue.

poSSum

With logic like that I'm really glad you don't work for GM.

Then 5th gen sales are down by 1.

PacerX

What exactly is illogical about that???

When you remove the T-tops, they go in the trunk.

When you put the convertible top down, IT GOES IN THE TRUNK.

Either way, you're losing trunk space, so pray tell me how a set of T-tops in the trunk taking up some space is worse than a convertible top taking up a WHOLE BUNCH of space.

Furthermore, because of the way convertible tops are installed in the vehicle, the T-top car is going to have more trunk space when the tops are on the roof than the convertible will with the top up.

Where, precisely, do you expect the convertible to go??? And did you see that decklid? Putting a pack of cigarettes back there is going to require some creative origami skills ON THE HARDTOP. Just imagine what it's going to be like with the top down.



Go buy a Malibu or Impala then.

Bye!

poSSum

Odd. The roof on my 4th gen stacks up nicely right behind the backseat over the fuel tank. The whole trunk well remains open and accessible.

Even the Corvette retains some semblance of a trunk.


Last time I looked they were FWD 4 doors that didn't come in the convertible flavour. Corvette on the other hand.

Sorry to see you're leaving.

BTW ...what did you do with the Aztec to get it to run 9's?

guionM

To me, the big selling point was the roll down rear windows the concept has. If it's going to be fixed, then I'd rather have the B-pillar and T-tops. Without the B pillar, the T tops would look as right as they did on the pre-85 Fox Mustang coupes.

YOU AREN'T KIDDING (about Camaro's unveiling)!!! The reaction was unbelieveable.


....and there wasn't enough room to run.

DrewSG

B pillar... noooooooo

Jim the Nomad

Wasn't the reason for t-tops coming into existence the fact that GM, and many other companies, stopped making verts altogether for a number of years, making t-tops the 'convertables' of their initial days? Now that verts have been back for awhile, couldn't we scale back on the t-tops? The profitability of t-tops is hard to argue against, let alone their coolness, but incorporating it into the design that has already caused such a positive stir looks like it will be a pain...

I personally think that the idea of rolling down 1/4 glass has been out of the mainstream for so long (with the exception of the BMW 8 series, and probably a few others) that it might be well recieved in non-enthusiast circles, perhaps helping to sell a few v6 models so we can have more z-28s and SS's.

If t-tops don't make it into the 5th gen, they should definitely work them into the 6th gen, to give us something to talk about further down the road.

5thgen69camaro

Obviously you dont own a T-Top 4th Gen (like my 98) as they take the entire trunk. I cant imaging the convertable 4th gen taking the entire trunk.

But thanks for clearing it up for us!