If You Really Musk, This Company Will Turn Your Tesla Model 3 Into A Cabriolet

Newport Convertible Engineering is offering to turn your Model 3 into a drop-top, with curious results...
If You Really Musk, This Company Will Turn Your Tesla Model 3 Into A Cabriolet

We’ve spoken before about the Tesla Model 3‘s slightly gawky roofline, but we’re unsure if this is the best solution to it. Newport Convertible Engineering, an American company that’s turned all sorts of cars into drop-tops - from Nissan GT-Rs to Cadillac Escalades - is now offering to hack the roof off and turn it into a cabriolet.

If You Really Musk, This Company Will Turn Your Tesla Model 3 Into A Cabriolet

Based in Huntington Beach, California and with 37 years of experience doing this sort of thing, Newport built Tesla convertible before, in the form of a Model S cabriolet first seen six years ago.

The Model 3 looks to have been made in much the same way, with the B pillars retained, holding up a support beam for the fabric roof. When folded down, the roof merely lays on the boot lid in the classic rag top style - without the R&D budget of a major manufacturer behind you, it’s never going to be possible to engineer something neater that stows the roof out of sight.

If You Really Musk, This Company Will Turn Your Tesla Model 3 Into A Cabriolet

Newport says it’s currently the only company offering to turn the Model 3 into a convertible, a claim which seems to stack up after a little searching. “In theory, convertibles are the perfect way to enjoy electric motoring,” the firm notes, adding, “What better way to experience your zero-emissions car than with the roof down - enjoying the silence, the sounds of nature and the wind in your hair?”

We can see the logic behind that thinking, but can’t help but think a used Tesla roadster might be a better way to go about it.

Comments

Latooman

With the roof up it looks like a badly erected festival tent.

05/22/2020 - 14:50 |
32 | 2
Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

Matt Robinson You missed the opportunity for this

05/22/2020 - 15:13 |
44 | 0

It did cross my mind!

05/22/2020 - 15:50 |
32 | 0
🎺🎺thank mr skeltal

🤮🤮🤮

05/22/2020 - 15:52 |
2 | 2
CannedRex24

pretty sure, even Top Gear did a better job with the Espace

05/22/2020 - 16:15 |
18 | 0
Twopoint0

Do they accept your dignity as payment?

05/22/2020 - 16:45 |
14 | 0
Matthew Henderson

That pun killed me

05/22/2020 - 17:44 |
0 | 0
LamboV10

And the Award for The Most Useless Car Of The Year goes to…

05/22/2020 - 18:19 |
4 | 0
German Car fanboy

I don’t like convertibles with 2 rows of seats (Except Tesla Roadster), it just doesn’t fit right.

05/23/2020 - 00:46 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

my god this is bad…so very bad

05/23/2020 - 03:09 |
2 | 0
Elliot.J99

Looks retarded, just like people who think it’s tasteful

05/24/2020 - 01:28 |
0 | 4

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