My current test ride is a Lexus LC convertible. Or was, as it went back to its home on press-fleet island about an hour ago.

Anyway, cooler temperatures draped Chicagoland right around the time that I got the car. So I didn't drop the top as much as I would've liked.

Similarly, I tested a Mini convertible last winter, during freezing temps, and as a test of my cold tolerance -- and the car's -- I dropped the top during a freezing January day. Made it about five minutes before I raised it again.

So, I ask you -- what's your line between top down and top up? Sixty degrees? Fifty? Putting it down even if snowmen are in people's yards?

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I'd rather have the roof down cold than hot actually. Seat heaters and regular heater do a good job.

Yes. The roof town in the blazing heat isn’t much fun IMHO

Tim, you lucky duck. I love that Lexus!

The Miata's stay on the road until the salt comes out. Temps be damned.

The only way to fit skis in a Miata, 911 and any other 'vert, is with the top down. I'm personally exactly tall enough to not duck under the slipstream in a Boxster. No chance in a Miata. The 911 'vert is perfect for me. Skis in the back "seat." The S2000 was perfection; as in, perfection period; but it was either skis OR someone to ski with.

NA Miata goes topless as long as roads are dry and heater is running, windscreen in place.