Volvo's Jigsaw Puzzle Hardtop Convertible

One of my most pleasant memories from living in Santa Fe was cruising the back road to Albuquerque to visit Brian Damkroger for the first time in John Atkinson's classic Mercedes ragtop. Naturally, it started to rain and we had to pull off the road and wrestle his roof back onto the car. All this Mercedes mechanical sophistication and we still have to do this by hand? I thought.

Volvo's new C70 has a hard-top retractable that looks too complex to last, but what do I know? Here's footage from this week's Detroit Auto Show.

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