If you, and others, thought of that, I guess it might well be what she thought of. Convertibles are only about 15% more money than other new cars, iirc, and by the time I buy the car several years old, that's not a lot of money. So I've never thought of it as a way to impress anyone**, but my older brother, who had two of them for maybe 8 years total told me stories of girls who didn't like them, because of their hair and the wind, so that's what I was trying to call attention to, and that's what I thought she heard.
My first convertible was a loan, then a gift, from my brother when he was in the army in Viet Nam. It had ongoing mechanical problems which the dealer (soon to be out of business) coudln't fix, and so he bought another new convertible when he got back from Viet Nam, which worked fine. So I didnt' even pick out the first car and I liked it mostly because it was only 2 years old, compared to my previous car that was
15 y.o. It took me a whole year to really get hooked on having the top down. And this is all part of why I don't think of a convertible as a way to impress anyone. For me it's about the vista and the breeze and the relaxation. It still suprpises me but even if everything I'm looking at would be visible through the windows of a hardtop, it looks so much better with the top down.I wish I had.
**I don't think of the car as a way to impress people, though whem the top is down, I've gotten unsolicited compliments, even once by a 65-year old man when I stopped at a yard sale and hadn't said a word about my car, and the car was 15 years old. With the top down, Chryslers and some others have a very sleek line that even hard top sports cars may not have. But the soft top is a pain in the neck.Thanks and thanks to everyone who tried to help.