$20,000 Used Convertibles: Window Shop with Car and Driver
A search for the perfect $20,000 droptop reveals how eclectic our tastes are. Apr 23, 2021
With warmer weather on the horizon, the Window Shoppers take a look at some summer favorites: convertibles. We set a healthy budget of $20,000 to ensure the panel finds interesting examples, and in that, they didn t disappoint.
First up is contributor John Pearley Huffman, who stretches the definition of convertible to its breaking point by picking a Meyers Manx. The crew points out that without a top, the Manx doesn t fit the bill. Besides, he s way over budget.
Editorial director Joe Brown makes his Window Shop debut this week and puts up a rare convertible pickup for consideration. He claims it s connected to McLaren in a weird six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon way. The truck s 125-hp V-6 puts some people off, but a few of us like the idea of getting a nice tan while driving to Home Depot.
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New York City used to be an early adopter of new transportation modes. In the late eighteen-sixties, New Yorkers took up the velocipede, a primitive version of the bicycle. Half a century later, the city embraced the automobile, and eventually made free parking available for the fossil-fuel-burning machines a remarkable giveaway of expensive public space that many carless citizens would like back now. New York also engineered and built a subway system, above ground and below ground, which, before the
Covid-19 pandemic hit, carried five and a half million riders every weekday a landmark of American people-moving the city may never reach again, if remote work is here to stay.