1989: Topless Corrado?
Volkswagen’s Corrado sport coupe, the fastest car VW had ever produced at the time, could have been offered without a roof. European sources confirmed that the new convertible, aimed squarely at the US market, would be built alongside all other Corrado variants at the Karmann factory in Osnabruck, West Germany. Karmann also produced on behalf of VW all Scirocos and Golf cabriolets, and previously made 300,000 drop top Beetles.
VW’s in house design team, under the leadership of Herbert Schafer, had by all accounts styled an admirably neat cabrio, which incorporated rollover protection bars in its windscreen pillars. Because the fashionable Corrado had a low, slanted nose and a high flicked up tail, its roof had to be folded away tightly beneath a tonneau cover to allow unrestricted rear vision.
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