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Looking for wind-in-the-hair thrills but don't want to mortgage the house? Cameron McGavin puts four attractively priced roadsters under the microscope.

Concepts from lightweight roadsters to boulevard cruisers turned heads - and environmentally friendly cars took a back seat. By Joshua Dowling and John Lamm. Unveiling the Mercedes-Benz baby roadster, Jurgen Hubbert said: "Car factories need to become dream factories in order to survive in t

After a rash of '90s roadsters comes the heatstroke - bred-to-race coupes are bursting out of the factories, reports Georg Kacher. Coupe-crazy Germany is at it again, working on new high-performance hardtops. The sleek Mercedes SLC, based on the SLK sports car, and the butch BMW Z3 GT, a..read more

WHATEVER the world's car designers are smoking, we'd like some. Two years ago the only proper sports car around was the Mazda MX-5. It's still the benchmark, but suddenly we're being buried in small, stripped-out, in-your-face roadsters. Giving a mega-boost to the value of Fuji and Kodak shares a