I don't blame the economy; I blame this:

Hey. Look. Same car.

:dunce:

I want to know how it compares with high school graduation rates, particularly among females.

If there's a strong correlation, it could also predict a large drop in sales for V6 Mustangs and the Acura TSX.

Living in Florida, gotta have my 'vert.

It isn't just the Sebring...any car that has that convertible hardtop - G6, C70, Eos, etc...just looks really odd in the hindquarters. People who buy verts don't want an odd, eccentric looking car, they want a coupe with no frakkin' roof!

And those trunk seams are killer. You could fit your hand in those seams.

maybe if Prius made a convertible. Are there any convertible SUVs, other than that abominable Jeep Wrangler (the tall doors run the convertible effect.)

I think a "hardtop convertible" and a real soft-top convertible appeal to different people. And many manufacturers have replaced their soft tops with hard top 'verts. I wonder if that's a factor? Mazda wisely kept the soft top Miata. Some people really prefer it.

Oddly, the car never designed to be a coupe, the MX-5, is the only one that gets the folding hardtop right (aside from pricey M-Bs perhaps). Are sales of these down, too?

@Goety: We used to have a bunch of half-vert. SUVs from Japan (Toyota, Suzuki and Isuzu mainly) but those died off for some reason.

I don't remember the sales rates for all cars, but they dropped too, didn't they? 8.6% would be more relevant in the context of change in sales for all cars, or non-convertible cars.