FALL FLING - WE TOSS OPEN SOME TOPS TO CATCH AUTUMN'S SLANTING RAYS

摘要

MOST PEOPLE WITH A yen for open-top cruising imagine an idyllic drive along a sun-dappled scenic highway, a warm breeze blowing back the tresses and rippling the shirt-sleeve of an elbow crooked on the windowsill. Reality, on the other hand, finds many a convertible owner hunkered down under a closed roof with the air conditioning blasting, or risking heatstroke, third-degree sunburn and permanent disfigurement from riding top down in a traffic jam with the midday summer sun blazing overhead. Not a pretty picture.