[QUOTE=smashwebs;743528]This is not true, the coupe is NOT designed to accommodate the convertible. Why do you think the coupe was out an entire year earlier? There is a lot more design and testing involved in building a convertible. I'm not sure exactly what the differences in the supports, but I guarantee that the coupe is NOT going to be as solid as the convertible if you just remove the roof. It takes Nissan about an extra 100-150lbs to gain the same rigidity and an additional 50-100lbs for the difference in weight of the soft top and mechanism, and I promise anybody else isn't going to be able to do it as well for reasonable cost.
Its been said in many places that the z, has almost no supports in the roof line. Most of them around around the doors apparently and lower in the vehicle. Its been said all BY NISSAN, that instead of making the car, and then modifying it for a roadster like they did for the 350z, they built the car, the coupe from the go with all the supports so that they convertible would not gain a huge amount of weight and still be almost as rigid as the coupe.
I am not calling you a liar, but I am not making this up and I have read it in a ton of places when the convertible was about to come out. It was specifically from Nissan saying they thought ahead this time pretty much.
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