Not so with Audi's A4 Cabriolet. With its well-insulated three-layer top and available quattro all-wheel drive system, the A4 Cabrio is useful year-round. I've just finished a week with one, with daytime temperatures varying from highs in the mid-60s (top-down weather for winter!) to the high 30s. While none of that is extreme to anyone in, say, Fargo ND or Prudhoe Bay AK, with the A4 Cabrio's top up at 40 degrees, it's as snug and well-insulated as a sedan. Conversely, when the first-generation A4 Cabrio was introduced in late summer 2002, I drove it in a Southern California heat wave. 100 degrees out? No problem, heat stroke is no fun, put the top up and turn on the air conditioning.




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