Talk:Roadster

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"Notable vehicles include the BMW Z4, Honda S2000, Mercedes SLK, Porsche Boxster, and Toyota MR-Spyder.". There is one car in particular missing, which even carries the 'barchetta' name: the Fiat barchetta! website

I'm pretty amazed.... The 350Z, the TT, Crossfire are cars that have been make from Coupe canNOT be classified as roadster... If you had the Fiat Barchetta, you need to speak about the Alfa Spider And if you put SLK, you need to put lotus elise (this can be considered as a targas but it is wrong as it has a soft top and you can remove to back window... then, you hand up with a roadster(considering the previous definition) with a roll barre...

Don't forget the Caterham Super Seven....

[edit] Origin of the word barchetta?

Barchetta redirects here and at the bottom of the page there's a few sentences on the Italian meaning, etc. I don't have a source to list but I've read that barchetta was first applied to a Ferrari 166 (produced 1948 - 1950) because the car looked like a "little boat". I guess the lines of the 166 were unusual for the time, tappered towards the road, kinda bubble like on top, and a crease in the sheet metal that ran across the tops of the wheel wells even suggested a waterline. See here for a picture. And it was definitely a roadster! I'll see if I can find a source. But perhaps the Ferrari 166 deserves to be mentioned anyway, it might be the quintessential roadster, and the car did win the Mille Miglia, LeMans and the Targa Florio, all in the same year! --RageX 19:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)