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BMW 3-Series CabrioletIn my opinion, BMW 3-Series Cabriolet should have stuck with traditional soft roof. Switching to folding metal roof added complexity and a weight penalty of 200 kilograms on the top of the equivalent Coupe.
This hampered its performance and civilized its handling. No wonder in its first road test event, BMW offered journalists to test only the most powerful model, 335i Cabriolet. As predicted, most journalists described the car felt slower than BMW335i Coupe, but the tremendous bottom-end and mid-range torque from the twin-turbo direct injection six reduced the damage to the minimum. Try a 330i or 325i instead and do you think the journalists will give the same favourable comments ?

Well, at least the chassis is very stiff. Among the added kilograms, about a third is spent to reinforce the chassis, which BMWis 50 percent stiffer in torsion than the last generation Cabriolet. The roof mechanism is also well built. It comprises of 3 pieces like Volvo C70, so it does not require raking the windscreen to reduce the size of roof panel, or lengthening the boot to accommodate it. With the roof up, the new Cabriolet looks almost the same as the Coupe. It even provides the same large glass area to lighten the cabin ambience.

The steel roof takes 22 seconds to open and 23 seconds to close, considerably faster than Volvo C70. When it is up, it provides very good noise and thermal insulation – that's the point of building coupe-cabriolet. When the roof is down, the Cabriolet suppresses wind buffeting very well. This car demonstrates extremely high standard of finish like any other BMWs.

The boot can swallow 350 liters of luggage with the roof is up, or reduces to 210 liters when the roof is down. Both figures are average to the class. Unfortunately, with the roof in the boot, it is difficult to access luggage through the narrow opening.

 
 

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