The BMW 4-Series Convertible is a drop top of our times, a reflection of what posh buyers think they want from a car with no roof: a nice badge that everybody knows and their bald patch highlighted by the sun. You wouldn’t really want to buy one if you were into driving and wanted to get most out of your investment, performance-wise.
It obviously faces the same problems as all other folding hardtop convertibles, and as Carbuyer’s Mat Watson discovers on his drive of the car, the difference in practicality between it and the regular coupe makes it hard to recommend. The roof mechanism, when folded up, impedes on cargo capacity in the boot (a lot) and when it’s deployed, it limits rear headroom to the point where only shorter people would not find it uncomfortable.
Then there’s the extra weight it has to carry around which turns it into a different handling animal to the coupe.
You must really want a 4-Series and wind-in-your-hair both at the same in order to buy it over the coupe or some other convertibles that are out there for around the same money.
By Andrei Nedelea
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