If now is not enough trouble as it is, you want to try then? FTN.
I figure I can sell them at nerdcons.
Well, it really doesn’t fit the compact part, but the Jeep Wrangler is probably the only current 4-door convertible SUV
As for the perfect car, I’m actually of two completely opposite minds. I either want to be in total control (like my Honda, above) or I want a safe, totally autonomous vehicle that I can get into and sleep/read/whatever and ignore the road until it’s parked at my destination.
I would want to copy this with a better engine:
Must have removable roof - see '55-'57 TBird - a hard shell and a rag top are interchangeable. With carbon fiber construction, the hard shell could end up at about 50 lbs - including the sliding tinted glass sun/moon roof.
Yes, wing AND cowl vents - and they are manually operated as God and Henry Ford dictated.
The entertainment is mounted atop the console, on a swivel mount so either seat has easy access.
Roof mount of the box also acceptable.
Tesla has a cute idea with ‘over-the-air’ software updates. Hackers are drooling.
Software updates are by thumb drives, sent overnight to both owner of record and nearest dealer/sales office. Only with the owner’s physical key can the car accept the update.
The steering wheel has had its day. Side-mounted stick(s). Maybe have sockets on both sides, so those who want to “give the wheel” to the passenger no longer needs to do that song and dance - yes, there could be cases where both sockets have sticks (Air France) - the car accepts inputs from only the stick selected by the driver - it can be a switch with a locking cover, if some buyer needs to control that.
CVT gear boxes now can have the speed and braking controlled by the stick - push forward to accelerate, pull back to slow/stop.
Fixed seats are a problem - folding seats give you flat surface but hog volume. ALL seats are easily swapped in/out - third-party specialized seat will be offered in any configuration you want.
Yes, give a basic set of seats with the car. Again, new fabrication techniques can bring seats in at near-trivial weights. And yes, an impossible-to-ignore-if-occupied infant/child seats will solve that problem.
A Tesla.
There’s always one.