Targa T-Tops, Ranked

I have owned 4 (out of 5!) cars with t-tops. I will now attempt to rank them.

I love this style of roof, I honestly think it offers open automobiling with the fewest amount of drawbacks. You can ask me to make another post if you really care about why, lets get to ranking - worst to best!

Worst

SW20 MR2

• The panels go standing up behind the two seats
• Getting them in there is fiddly and your passenger has to get out
• Getting the panels in the bags is even more fiddly
• If you don’t have bags, the metal buckle vibrates loudly against the glass
• Roof opening isn’t that big as the doors aren’t that big
• Cool how there’s no painted section, means you can swap panels between cars if necessary
• I don’t think there’s any tinting
• Sun shades and panel bags are thin and cheap but work well
• Pretty sure the AW11 let you put them in the frunk, all I want to do is store things in the frunk, Toyota why would you deny me
  

N13 Nissan EXA

• This will be short since the car never ran and I never had to live with it
• Shades aren’t glass which sucks
• Stored under the floor of the boot (I’ve been told this isn’t true and can find no evidence or photos to prove it, but I swear it is)
  
• Can take them off without passenger getting out
• Painted panels obv
• Removable boot lid is a cool touch

Best

Z32 Nissan 300ZX

• Open area bigger than the MR2
• Can strap the tops in the back without disturbing passenger
• T-top bags and shades are swanky leather
• Friendly tint blocks the sun’s harmful rays
• Only downside is that swapping panels between cars is a real pain due to body color section

Z31 Nissan 300ZX

• Pretty much the same as the Z32 except browner
  
• No painted part so panels can be swapped cars if you like
• Pretty sure the 300ZR or 200zR or something had a mirror finish on them, can’t find any pictures
  

Honorable mention to that DSM Eclipse thing that Doug reviewed which has a relatively pathetic sunroof with a manually fitted wind deflector which pretty much couldn’t be worse. I haven’t mentioned wind deflectors yet since all these cars have them and all of them pop up automatically because why wouldn’t they?