Convertible

It's been 50 years since Ferrari put a V12 in a drop-top, but just listen to the sound it makes on the gas. Hair-raising.

As spring follows winter, as day follows night, so a convertible is sure to follow a good Ferrari. When the F8 Tributo first appeared in March this year, the clock began to tick. Today, it has tocked, and now the F8 series has its own hairdryer: the 710-horsepower F8 Spider.

Perhaps in retaliation for the mean things people said about the brand after Dieselgate, Volkswagen has decided to inflict a convertible crossover on the motoring world with today's release of the T-Roc Cabriolet.

​Three years ago, the BMW Z4 was discontinued and we feared the fun little driver’s car would never return. Luckily, we aren’t good at predictions, and BWM brought back the Z4 as an all-new design. It’s little, it’s a drop-top, and it’s still fun to drive. Now it’s also comfortable.

Lister has been around for a moderately evil 66 years, best known for making the dastardly Knobbly race cars that owned the British racing scene in the 50s. More recently, these guys have been doing diabolical things to Jaguars, and to celebrate, here's the fiendish 666-horsepower LFT-C.

It's a gorgeous, razor-edged convertible ... But at what cost? After revealing the 911 Speedster as a concept last year, Porsche has announced the limited edition production version. Based on the 911 GT3, it's a sexy beast indeed - but is it worth the US$274,500-plus price tag?

Aston has yoinked the roof off its super-grunty V12 muscle car to create its fastest ever convertible. The DBS Superleggera Volante hits the same 211-mph (340-km/h) top speed as the hard top version, but can drop its eight-layer canopy to deliver "that extra level of sensory overload."

Fresh from Detroit and headed for Geneva, this convertible LC show car looks less like a way-out concept car and much more like something we'll see in showrooms before too long. It also looks like a ton of fun to point down a twisty summer beach road.

When we saw the Skydancer 7.5 motorhome cabriolet back in 2014, we weren't sure it'd ever make it out of the prototype stage. But it has, transforming into the Fiat Ducato-based Skydancer Apéro, a luxurious, bright-white motorhome with retractable roof and space for four people.

Asus has announced three new Chromebooks that has been ruggedized for students and its first Chrome OS tablet. The Education Series is made up of two 11.6 inch Chromebooks – one a clamshell laptop and the other a convertible – and a 14 inch version, together with a toughened up 9.7 inch tablet.

​One good McLaren deserves another, and the British supercar company has chosen to celebrate the silly season with a new hardtop convertible version of its gorgeous 720S, capable of giving just about anyone an Einstein hairdo with its 202 mph top-down top speed.

Unlike the BMW i8 Roadster, which dragged to market years after the i8 Coupe, the new 8 Series Convertible hits production mere months after the coupe. BMW brings fresh air into its performance flagship, giving it 523 hp and a power soft-top that opens in 15 seconds.