Sentence examples for open roadster from inspiring English sources

Initially it comes just as an open roadster, but a coupé will join the range later.

In its life to date it has seen its engine grow from 4.3 to 4.7 litres, its coupé body style joined by an open Roadster version, its pace and appeal further boosted by the option of a V12 engine, its reputation enhanced by many racing successes.

A bemused Cary Grant and a pixilated Irene Dunne or Katharine Hepburn fumble toward romance in an open "roadster," filmed on sets, with backdrop footage of trees and brooks, and with "funny" staged accidents — a harmless plunge into a ditch or a gentle ramming into the rickety local farm truck, with its laconic yokel driver and his meshed coop of squawking chickens.

If you want one of the 1,400 300SL coupes Mercedes built before replacing it with a less radical open roadster in 1957 carrying the same name, simply bring  $1 million to a top-tier classic car auction, though even that might not be enough to land a prime example.

We present our pick of the eight best open roadsters on the market, ranging from retro classics such as the revamped Ford Thunderbird to glamorous machines like the Mercedes SL500.

In the slightly less expensive, under-$60,000 range, there are such cars as the Mercedes SLK and Porsche Boxster, but neither of these cars offers the horsepower or cockpit size of the SC 430, although their manual shifts and sportier suspension come closer to making these classic open roadsters where the driver feels more contact with the car and the road.

The 300SL was also available in an open-air roadster version, using standard doors, beginning in 1957.

Of course, if you want even more visceral exposure to the engine, you can wait 17 seconds for the hardtop Spider to transform into open-air roadster.

Audi's smaller TT would probably be an improvement, preferably the open-top roadster, not a claustrophobic, low-roof coupe (like the R8), all the better to admire the surrounding glacier-topped Ortler Alps.

Indigo was designed to measure acceptance for an Indy Car-inspired open-top roadster.

Like Mr. Gruss, the car owners seemed generally unfazed -- except for those who were driving open-top roadsters and thus received unexpected dermabrasion treatments as they drove through the storm.