Patent ID: 6837533

Claim:
A hardtop vehicle roof with three rigid roof parts movable between a closed position, in which they cover an interior space of a vehicle body, and a storage position, in which they are disposed in a storage compartment behind said interior space, said rigid roof parts including a front, an intermediate and a rear roof part, each having a top surface and being disposed on the vehicle body in the closed position of the vehicle roof behind one another in the direction of a longitudinal vehicle axis, each of said rigid roof parts being individually supported on the vehicle body by a separate operating mechanism so as to be movable thereby between the closed position and the storage position, in which each roof part is deposited with its top surface facing upwardly that is in the same orientation which it has in its closed position, such that said rigid roof parts are accommodated in the storage compartment stacked on top of, and closely adjacent, one another, said vehicle roof top having cabriolet, Targa and Landaulet configurations, said rear roof part being deposited in said storage compartment and the other roof parts being in a closed position to provide said Landaulet configuration said intermediate roof part being deposited in said rear storage compartment and the roof parts being in a closed position to provide said Targa configuration and all roof parts being deposited in said storage compartment to provide said cabriolet configuration.