Hagerty’s recent market rundown of 2+2 coupes provided a new variation on longtime auctioneer Dean Kruse’s proverb of “when the top goes down, the price goes up!” It seems that for the most part, values plummet inverse to inches added to the wheelbase. So, logic prevails—as it largely does with Kruse’s original convertible v. coupe aphorism. Largely is the key word there—there are some notable exceptions.
What happens when the market bucks this drop-top logic? There are some models out there that have us scratching our heads. What makes a selection of fixed-roof cars more valuable—in some cases, significantly so—than their retractable roof siblings?
