VALUE, as the cliché goes, is relative.

For a smidgen under $180,000 you can have the most exciting convertible in the world, that easily seats four adults and a good deal of their baggage – in comfort.

Yes, there are other rag-tops, drop-tops, and whatever other euphemism for topless motoring you care to think of, but at the end of the day, every single other one places a big fat compromise on carrying capability and/or sportscar dynamics. Try squeezing in a couple of grown-ups in the back of a roofless 911 and they’ll soon be whingeing like a couple of crybabies.