Word: hardtops
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...Bruynesteyn of Prudential Securities: "It's basically a chop," meaning that Toyota grafted a soft top onto the Solara with minimal changes to the rest of the car. Toyota sold 7,600 units when it introduced the vehicle in 2000, charging about $5,000 more than for the comparable hardtop. The convertible shares a platform with seven other vehicles, so if interest in the ragtop wanes, the automaker can easily shift production...
Final stop is Continental Toyota, where a slick, streamlined Celica has been waiting to capture Heather's heart. She jumps into a white $14,600 hardtop and opens the sun roof, declaring, "This is so cute!" The floor model has a stick shift; instantly Heather insists, "I could learn manual shifting." She would drive it out the door right now if she could. Julie says, "I don't think there's even a comparison" with the Calais or the Sunbird...
They turned out to be just as vulnerable. By 1974 convertible production had dropped to 50,000 a year. The ragtops were done in by efficient auto air conditioning, hardtop styling and vinyl roofs that gave cars a convertible look at much less cost, other snazzy top variations like the sunroof, and rising crime. Vandals could easily slash a soft top, break in and make off with the vehicle or any prized part thereof...
Tuomo Kerola sounds like a Japanese two-door hardtop...
...class if you can keep a turtle healthy and running for five or six years." Main threat to the turtles' health: the customers at Brennan's. Fueled up on "jelly beans," a deadly concoction of anisette and blackberry brandy, they pose a mortal threat to the hardtop thoroughbreds plodding underfoot...