[King T]

Originally Posted by Mr. iNCREDIBLE

ok, so

Toyota discontinues the Solara because of soft sales

Chrysler discontinues the 200/Sebring Convertible because of soft sales

Volkswagen discontinues the EOS because of soft sales

Mitsubishi discontinues the eclipse convertible (spyder) because of soft sales

I could go on because there are several others, but you get my point.

Yes Toyota discontinued the Solara because of soft sales...because the 2nd gen redesign was terrible! A lot of 1st gen Solara owners hated it, and at the time there were more convertible options available.

Chrysler discontinued the 200/Sebring convertible because they didn't want to pay for tooling the new 200 into a convertible

Chrysler will not offer a convertible version of its all-new 2015 200 sedan. According to a report in Edmunds.com, the costs of re-engineering Chrysler’s Dart-based 200 to create a sufficiently rigid convertible would be too high. “We decided we’d be putting our best foot forward by concentrating all of our available resources into the sedan versus dividing them between the sedan and a convertible,” a Chrysler spokesperson said.

VW priced themselves out of the market with the Eos

Why should it disappear? In 2007, the Eos started at $28,810, got to 60 miles per hour in roughly seven seconds and returned around 22 city, 30 highway miles per gallon from its 200-hp 2.0T engine. Today's Eos gets 200 hp from a 2.0T and nearly the same 0-60 time and gas mileage, but starts at $36,460.

As a previous owner of a 1993 Mitsubishi Esclipse and 1999 Eclipse GSX, I can tell yout that the Eclipse really should have been killed at the end of the 2nd gen, and those horrible 3rd and 4th gen Eclipses never should have seen the light of day! They looked bad as coupes and even worse as convertibles. They took away AWD, turbo 4, and gave it a suspension setup that was adjusted to provide a softer and more compliant ride quality to give distance between the EVO and Eclipse but ended up killing the Eclipse because that's what attracted people to it (like me).