As crossovers have gotten extra widespread, it solely is sensible that just a few automakers would strive promoting convertible variations. On paper, it’s an amazing thought, however the first two that we acquired — the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet and Land Rover Vary Rover Evoque Convertible — have been gross sales disasters and shortly canceled. And but, as Motor1 studies, over in Europe, the Volkswagen T-Roc Cabriolet is the preferred mainstream convertible by the primary half of 2024.
Thus far this 12 months, Volkswagen has offered 6,110 T-Roc droptops, beating the second-place Mazda MX-5 Miata and its 3,545 gross sales handily. T-Roc Cabriolet gross sales are literally down about 23 p.c year-over-year, too, and it nonetheless took the highest spot. Then once more, it didn’t assist that Miata gross sales are additionally down about 15 p.c. As Motor1 factors out, which may be as a result of Mazda not too long ago converted from ND2 to ND3 manufacturing.
That stated, there may be an asterisk connected to this win. The Mini Cooper Convertible is taken into account a premium car, not a mainstream one, and it took the highest spot general with 11,140 gross sales in the identical interval. Nonetheless, second place general isn’t that unhealthy. If it makes Volkswagen really feel higher, the T-Roc nonetheless beat the Porsche 911 Cabriolet’s 5,784 gross sales, in addition to the 4,714 4 Collection Convertibles that BMW offered.
Sadly for T-Roc Cabriolet followers, the enjoyable is about to be over. Volkswagen has already introduced plans to kill off the T-Roc. So even being one of many best-selling convertibles in the whole continent doesn’t appear to be sufficient to maintain the convertible crossover round. Does this imply the experiment is lastly over? Most likely not. Finally, another automaker will most likely strive it once more with an electrical car, however that’s most likely years away from really occurring. Oh properly.