Word: roadster
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...would nag Nabokov about his lack of progress on his first professional translation. “A long-suffering, occasionally snow-sprinkled copy of the Russian book sometimes lay for days on the seat of my permanently topless MG-TC,” Nabokov writes, referring to his classic roadster. “Father, when he happened upon the car parked on a nearby street, would meticulously record the page to which the book was opened, and confront me in the evening with my lamentable lack of progress...
Drive Lamborghini's latest fantasy car, the Murcilago roadster, and you'd be wise to leave the roof at home. For starters, you'll want to be seen in a vehicle that looks like a Cubist sculpture: a cross between a B-2 Stealth bomber and the Batmobile. And you don't want to be seen wrestling with the roof, since it's little more than an erector set with a fabric tarp and may require an engineering degree to dismantle. If you hit 100 m.p.h., Lamborghini warns, the roof might blow off--and how embarrassing would that...
...hold the purse strings fool you: the Italians are still making blissfully impractical transport. Since 1998, VW has pumped $155 million into the brand, with Lambo currently producing two models (the Gallardo is the other) for the first time in its 41-year history. One feature the Murcilago roadster borrows from VW's Audi A4 convertible is roll bars that pop up within milliseconds in a rollover. But the Murcilago, named for a legendary Spanish bull so fierce it was spared by a matador, is as outrageous as Lambo's prior exotica, cars like the Countach and Diablo...
...million Price of a 1929 Mercedes SSK roadster sold at auction last week, the second most expensive car in the world...
What can't easily be discounted is the coolness factor. As hybrids with the looks, luxury and power of conventional cars emerge, consumers may snap them up. Ryan Brown, 25, a computer consultant from Arlington, Va., just dumped his hot car--an Audi TT roadster--for a Prius. He fell in love with the Prius' technology, peppiness and design. But he is having one problem. The Prius runs silently on electric power at low speeds, and that can be spooky. "Driving it in a parking garage, people don't hear me coming. You don't want to honk, but folks...