Audi A3 Cabriolet Review (25/10/14)

I HAVE never been a really big Cabriolet fan. The explanation is quite a simple really because it is all to do with dynamics.

A Cabriolet is, essentially, a car with the roof lopped, off and while it might be nice for driving around with the wind in your hair, it does absolutely nothing for the behaviour of the car on the road.

If you think of a car as a box with six sides – front, back, top, bottom, left and right sides – it appears as a rigid and strong structure. However, if you take the top off, then the box loses much of its inherent strength and when various loads are applied to the box then it will not have the same rigidity as it once had.