soft-top

noun

informal

: a car with a roof made of thick fabric that can be lowered or removed : a convertible

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Students are taken out to the water on soft-top surfboards, which are safer and more cushioned and stable than hard-top surfboards – that can be adapted to their abilities. —

Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 26 May 2024 The car comes with a retractable soft-top, although no pictures have been made available, that can be deployed in around 20 seconds at speeds of up to 30 mph. —

Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 May 2024 Hardtop coupe and soft-top convertible body styles are offered. —

James Raia, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024 The first is the wide-scale production of cheap soft-top surfboards, which are floaty enough to catch pretty much every mushy wave that rolls through. —

Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024 There is, of course, a fabric soft-top for when the weather takes a turn for the worse. —

Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024 Its hard-to-beat color combination of Midnight Blue for the exterior and red Connolly leather inside is punctuated by a black soft-top roof and optional chrome wire wheels. —

Robert Ross, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2023 Resolving the folding soft-top mechanism with the tail section must have been a bit of a challenge because the coupe’s C-pillar meets a confluence of design elements, among them the curvature of the rear haunches, the flush mounting of the rear window, and the relatively short overhang of the tail. —

Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023 With a soft-top roof now replacing the former SL’s folding hardtop, most of the car’s weight is closer to the ground, allowing for truly impressive apexing, considering this is largely a backroads boulevardier. —

Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2023