I'm not sure that "roadster" or "convertible" can be consistently
applied to any vehicle or make. Another example of this kind of
inconsistency is in teh difference between a "sports car" and a "tourer."
My MGC, for instance, is never described in the literature
as a "sports car" (though it is called a convertible.)
Presumably the reason for this was that they designed the car as a "tourer",
i.e., something that can get two people and their luggage from point A to
point B on the open highways of America or the Continent. A "sports car"
would probably not fit this definition, but, rather, be described as something
that can "get you around town" in a sporty fashion. So MGBs are sports
cars and MGCs are tourers, yet both are convertibles and look almost
exactly alike. The real differences are in the engineering.
Will
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