Retractable Hard-Top Convertibles Are A Doomed Fad Share The onslaught of retractable hard-top convertibles over the last two decades basically died overnight, and since I don’t think many people cared enough to realise it, I also don’t think anybody is going to be upset over it. The writing has been on the wall for the retractable hard-top concept for some time, but the latest video from the Big Car YouTube channel made me realise that we are living through the final throws of the hard-top’s death right now: In the last 20 years, there were hard-top models of the Lexus IS, Chrysler 200 and Sebring, Infiniti Q60, Cadillac XLR, Volkswagen Eos, Volvo C70, and even the Pontiac G6. In the early 2000s, automakers were putting retractable hard-tops on their wildest production designs, including the infamous Chevy SSR and dead-on-arrival Fisker Karma S Sunset Edition. This doesn’t even account for all of the European retractables that came and went, which the Big Car shows more of.