Rediscovering The Sixth Sense

R1 045 200 (as tested)

- Lance Branquinho

There’s some rather strange things about German car culture, which are troubling for a South African to understand. Cloth seats on Golf GTis. Steel wheels on luxury cars. And convertibles. Germany might only have a tenth of South Africa’s generosity of sunlight a year, but that never deters the locals from retracting that foldable roof, turning the heater up, and cruising any autobahn in single digit temperatures.

If you are an authentic petrolhead, hate of the convertible is a given. They’re heavier and structurally less rigid than any equivalent coupe and that means they’re also slower and a touch more cumbersome into and around corners. All that aside, German still love them – so I was desperate to know why?