Folding hard top picture (rendering)

I kinda like it. Wonder how much it weights...

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/04/...lding-hardtop/

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On 2006-04-18, Scott Streeter > wrote:

> I kinda like it. Wonder how much it weights...
>
> http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/04/...lding-hardtop/

It looks like Mazda has adopted that stupid "ass-in-the-air"
look for the folding-hard-top version. That's too bad.

At least the rag-top version still looks like a real car.

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"Grant Edwards" > wrote in message
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> On 2006-04-18, Scott Streeter > wrote:
>
>> I kinda like it. Wonder how much it weights...
>>
>> http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/04/...lding-hardtop/
>
> It looks like Mazda has adopted that stupid "ass-in-the-air"
> look for the folding-hard-top version. That's too bad.
>
> At least the rag-top version still looks like a real car.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... Just enough
> at time to do my LIBERACE
> visi.com impression...

You mean like this?
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html

On 2006-04-18, gto > wrote:

>> It looks like Mazda has adopted that stupid "ass-in-the-air"
>> look for the folding-hard-top version. That's too bad.
>>
>> At least the rag-top version still looks like a real car.

> You mean like this?
> http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html

As Kelly Bundy would say, the mind wobbles...

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island, when...

In article <NHd1g.2813$uK.98@trndny03>, "gto" > wrote:

> You mean like this?
> http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html

Ack! I knew I shouldn't launch my newsreader so soon after eating.

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gto wrote:

> You mean like this?
> http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html

I need therapy now.

you guys are killing me ;-) Well, what do you think of the 'spyder' version
of the miata? I love it personally. Doubt there's a chance in _ _ _ _
they'll do it but I like it.

Chris
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"Dana H. Myers" > wrote in message
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> gto wrote:
>
>> You mean like this?
>> http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html
>
> I need therapy now.
>
>

not bad looking, but that side view looks an awful lot like the new audi tt
coupe that will be in the los angles auto show in november...
look at the last pic on this link... http://tinyurl.com/hyvqn



"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote in message
...
> Actually, that isn't a good picture (it's just part of the picture) it's a
> small pic so hopefully I can just attach it here w/o causing turmoil. I
> don't know if this is breaking a rule or whatever.
>
> I think it's a bad-ass looking car, much better looking than the 'coupe'
> miatas that mazda has been playing around with.
>
>
> Chris
> 99BBB
>
> "Grant Edwards" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 2006-04-18, gto > wrote:
>>
>>>> It looks like Mazda has adopted that stupid "ass-in-the-air"
>>>> look for the folding-hard-top version. That's too bad.
>>>>
>>>> At least the rag-top version still looks like a real car.
>>
>>> You mean like this?
>>> http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html
>>
>> As Kelly Bundy would say, the mind wobbles...
>>
>> --
>> Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hmmm... A
>> hash-singer
>> at and a cross-eyed guy
>> were
>> visi.com SLEEPING on a deserted
>> island, when...
>
>
>

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2006-04-18, Scott Streeter > wrote:
>
>> I kinda like it. Wonder how much it weights...
>>
>> http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/04/...lding-hardtop/
>
> It looks like Mazda has adopted that stupid "ass-in-the-air"
> look for the folding-hard-top version. That's too bad.

Mazda didn't "adopt" any look; that's simply the styling required to stow
the roof when it's folded.

> At least the rag-top version still looks like a real car.

<shrug> Sure, and my old man still thinks all new cars should look and drive
like every car he owned in the '60s.

The times, they are a-changin'. I don't have any problem with the hardtop
Miata styling in the least bit, especially knowing why it looks like that.

I already have one Miata that I'm tired of playing "vinyl top games" with.
As it is, I leave the top down these days and don't even drive the car
unless I won't have to mess with the top. I suspect this is the same reason
I have yet to see a Pontiac Solstice with its top down.

A retractable hardtop version would be much more user-friendly.

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Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> Actually, that isn't a good picture (it's just part of the picture)
> it's a small pic so hopefully I can just attach it here w/o causing
> turmoil. I don't know if this is breaking a rule or whatever.
>
> I think it's a bad-ass looking car, much better looking than the
> 'coupe' miatas that mazda has been playing around with.

I still haven't seen anything that comes close to looking as good as the
yellow M1 coupe concept. They should have built that sucker.

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