Talk:Convertible

message: I mistakenly added some bogus information about a government ban on convertibles in the 1970s.  While searching for a better source than what I'd already found, I discovered that the government threatened a more stringent rollover requirement, but never followed through with it.  However, this is likely to have made the auto manufacturers shy away from designing convertibles.
I'm going to add back in information to that effect.  If someone disagrees, please edit and comment. --- Bitt 04:34, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  US rollover standard of the late 1970s 

message: While the Jeep Wrangler can be considered a convertible, to me it seems that the Jeep YJ (pre-1996) models fit the role as a targa top and convertible, since they can be used as seemingly either. However, I don't know whether or not the Jeep could be considered a true "convertible", as many early trucks (i.e. the Ford Bronco, Chevrolet Blazer, etc.) used a similar system - a hardtop that could be removed and then equipped with a soft top. Zchris87v 08:40, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jeep Wrangler 

message: The Pontiac Solstice Coupe (briefly produced before Pontiac's shutdown) used a similar system. It's probably a better example for the article since it is a true convertible from the ground up. 208.53.69.34 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 08:37, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pontiac Solstice 

message: a new article entitled Cabriolet (carriage) has been created from the section Cabriolet, but I have not deleted the section from here. Cabriolet almost always refers to the car and not the carriage.  Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC
* Is good. I have now deleted the cabriolet section and changed the redirection of "cabriolet" to "cabriolet (carriage)". I hope there are no other loose ends in this change.Fbarw (talk) 20:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cabriolet (carriage) 

message: The article is full of uses of the Mazda Miata, could a different example be used to replace it as the Miata name is only used in North America and the majority of markets seem to use the MX5 name plate. Surely a car sold in both the US and UK/ROI under the same name must exist. As the Article for the car in question is Mazda MX5 it would make more sence to use that name if the car is to be kept.(Morcus (talk) 01:29, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miata MX5 

message: Having them at the bottom makes for boring article. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 23:59, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They were once "aside" the article, which seemed to make sense as they told a story of detailed images alongside the text:  842U (talk) 03:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  images should be spread throughout article 

message: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#Merging roadster et al for a centralised discussion around merging all the roadster-related articles. Zunaid©® 19:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging roadster et al 

message: :Category:Convertibles is itself a category within :Category:Car body styles. — Robert Greer (talk) 18:12, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Car body styles]] ''vs.'' [[:Category:Convertibles]]  

message: I got to this page because I came looking for the word "ragtop" (I'm not a native speaker). Now "Ragtop" redirects to "Convertible", but nowhere it says whether it refers to just the roof of the car or the entire car, or where the word comes from, in fact it doesn't mention the word "ragtop" anywhere in the page when I did a ctrl-F. Perhaps someone who is familiar to this kind of thing can write a little paragraph on the word? Even if just to mention "A Convertible car is sometimes also called a ragtop" or "The roof of a Convertible car is sometimes also called .."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.212.184.143 (talk) 11:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ragtop 

message: The "Pros and cons" section is entirely "cons" outside of a reference to flexibility.  This section should either be renamed or edited to more reflect the title. Dephconn (talk) 23:37, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pros and Cons 

message: Would it be worth splitting the list of coupe convertibles out into a seperate list page?  I actually started creating such a page before realising the list was further down in the article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coup%C3%A9_convertibles
Md84419 (talk) 22:47, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: My opinion? Such a list is not needed in WP at all, even in this article itself. It just accumulates cruft. It would be like having a list of sedans or list of cars in the first place. For more input please post this same question to WT:CARS, there is a bigger WP community of car article editors that can give input. Zunaid 12:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of coupe convertibles 

message: As an owner of such, I question the premise of the definition, and invite everyone to consider its alternative:
"A convertible...[is] a type of automobile ... that can 'convert' from an open-air vehicle to an enclosed one." That is certainly the way I use mine. A car like my own 2002 Ford Mustang is primarily an open-air roadster; I can put up a provisional roof when I have to, e.g. when it rains (rarely in Arizona, and then it is usually inside the garage) or when I run it through a car wash. The presumption needs to be considered more fully. Can we take a poll?
Scopk01 (talk) 04:10, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Premise - inverted? 

message: Hi,
this is probably not the right place to ask, but ... I came here from cabinet making pages, where "cabriole" refers to a type of furniture leg. How did a leaping goat end up a car roof?
T   83.109.183.59 (talk) 02:25, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hi, thx for answering. It seems that the root of "cabr-" is the latin word for "goat", and that "cabrioler" is the verb describing how goats bounce around hillsides ... hence, the convex/concave "rococco foot" on furniture ("cabriole") refers to a goat's hind leg. I guess the (secondary?) connotation of springyness makes the word useful to describe something bounces along (more or less) gently, like the light two-wheeled chaise. IIRC there is a word for a term that has been imported via two different source languages, but for the life of me ... Polysemy? T 83.109.183.59 (talk) 18:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Cabrioler, that's better. Thanks for polysemy, hadn't met it before. Mention of rococco feet made me think of the claw-and-ball kind and so to the discovery that WP even covers legless furniture. Its all just one great tapestry isn't it. Eddaido (talk) 21:12, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: The article should be retitled "Convertible (automobile)", as would be consistent with the article on sedans, i.e. "Sedan (automobile)". There is more than one meaning to the word Convertible as shown in the disambiguation.
FielderSincera01 (talk) 04:26, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retitle: Convertible (automobile) 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: All this information about all these cars but not one mention of and Austin-Healey. Is it the red-headed step-child? 2600:1700:D030:19E0:8056:C527:A036:CE78 (talk) 21:10, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There are hundreds of convertibles. We can't mention them all by name.  Stepho  talk  21:34, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convertibles