There was a flurry of activity around an Alfa convertible whose engine refused to fire up.
Most of the key cast members participated, as did a wrecked white 1967 Austin-Healey convertible, a fire engine, firemen, a Dalmatian, and a number of cops.
Driving enthusiasts love a layout like the Boxster's: a lightweight convertible with the engine placed behind the passenger compartment, like that of a racecar, for better weight distribution, handling and road-holding.
Fiat added sound-deadening elements to the car — an acoustic windshield, and additional components inside the convertible roof — but engine noise, tire noise and wind noise, even with the top up, tend to accentuate the engaged drive experience.
Although fuel economy might not factor highly in a customer's purchase decision, the convertible will offer an engine idle stop-start system to save fuel.
Childhood was a red CGI convertible with a faulty engine in Cartoon Network's ReBoot, a show that was simultaneously ahead of and behind its time enough to guarantee its cult status today.
Ferrari Last but never least, Ferrari's newest offering is the California, a convertible with a front-engine V-8, 460 horsepower and a seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission.
At the same time, the British made do with 4-speeds, rear drum brakes, cast-iron pushrod engines and leaky convertible tops that seemed to have been engineered by the Marquis de Sade.
Like the hardtop, the base engine in the Convertible is a 2.5-liter 5-cylinder unit, the same engine that, in his review of the 2012 Passat sedan, Lawrence Ulrich called an "obsolescent lump".
Electric assists disable the anti-theft system, unlatch the doors, heat the recontoured bucket seats, secure the rear hatch, raise and lower the convertible top and allow the engine to be started at the punch of a button.
