Will we ever see the convertible Evora
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I had a good chat with Donato Coco at last years FoS about the Evora Convertible. He said all the design work was done and a full size mock up existed. At the time he said they were trying to get the business case together but it was proving difficult. I guess with the financial issues focusing their attention over the past 18 months the project was put on ice.
He then started waxing lyrical about the Esprit Convertible and he went all misty eyed. Again a full size mock up exists (EVOs Harry Metcalfe has seen it) and Coco really, really wanted to see it go into production. We can but dream....
He then started waxing lyrical about the Esprit Convertible and he went all misty eyed. Again a full size mock up exists (EVOs Harry Metcalfe has seen it) and Coco really, really wanted to see it go into production. We can but dream....
Frimley111R said:
Who knows! I think we might at some point, after all it can't be that hard to engineer and may help overall sales.
The cost to engineer and produce the roof to a high enough standard would likely be the main issue.Shame though, I'd have one in a heartbeat, it'd make a very pretty drop top
BibsTLF said:
I'm sure these style of folding roof are pretty much bought in. It's a case of finding one that fits in the car and getting it to word to the standard required.
They wont just be 'bought in', if it's going to be done properly then they'll deal with a specialist supplier in folding roofs like Webasto who they'll have to pay for the engineering of the design that's specific to the car and likely have to buy the manufactured kit from them afterwards. This is the process even with large volume manufacturers It might be an application of a supplier's existing design framework or the re-engineering of an existing design, but it wont be a bolt on and go job and there would still be a lot of design and development to make it look nice and work properly.
Frimley111R said:
The main issue I can see is that the main roll bar runs across the middle of the seating area and so they'd need to engineer some type of pop up safety device which I am sure won't be cheap.
A pair of fixed hoops behind the driver would do the job, plenty of cars of similar type tuck them under the roofI understood that the Evora was designed from the outset to be capable of being built as a convertible - the roof isn't a structural member. There were renders floating around of the drop-top and it looked pretty good. However, the folding roof mechanism meant that the convertible was planned as strictly a 2-seater. To be honest, I can't imagine a targa working particularly well visually, and would rather rely on aircon than compromise the car just to get some wind in what's left of my hair.
Tuna said:
I understood that the Evora was designed from the outset to be capable of being built as a convertible - the roof isn't a structural member. There were renders floating around of the drop-top and it looked pretty good. However, the folding roof mechanism meant that the convertible was planned as strictly a 2-seater. To be honest, I can't imagine a targa working particularly well visually, and would rather rely on aircon than compromise the car just to get some wind in what's left of my hair.
All a matter of taste. I quite like the targa designs, but that's just me 
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