i think coupe or vert it'd wiegh the same.

 

i like coupes better. the reason i seem to keep getting convertibles is because the small cars are normally convertibles. i'm not a top down guy unless conditions are perfect...slower speeds, high temps and no rain only.

 

in order to achieve stiffiness wtih a drop top, there's alot more bracing done to the car which add weight.

a coupe version will require less bracing, less weight and easily produced a stiffer chassis out of the box.

and for those complaints about higher center of gravity, aluminum roof will do it just like our hood's

 

The bracing is engineered into the S2000's X-brace (or whatever it's called) chassis - Honda wouldn't re-engineer the chassis to remove the high center tunnel and floor bracing.

There's a big difference between adding a rigid top to an already stiff convertible vs. adding bracing to a coupe, like an M3.

If you can't comprehend that, you just don't get it...

 

Surprised no one has brought this up. The roll bars on this car is too low. Flip this car and the drivers Head is bound to get seriously injured, perhaps severe enough to get killed. Even if the roll bar is tall enough (like a Boxster), a coupe is more secure say if you were to roll off the side of the mountain. I recalled there was a member that was killed after rolling his car down the mountain.

The optional Hardtop won't help much in a mountain roll either. Why do you think many racing series require a roll cage? NSX is one of the rare cars that the structure is so secure that it does not require a cage in some racing series. I was there when an NSX owner flipped his car (with no cage) at the Mid Ohio race course. The owner walked away, with no injury what so ever. Amazing, the structure was very well intact

Convertibles are nice, but, I guess I am just too in tune to the risks and seen enough up side down incidents. I'll take a coupe.