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the sun's glow warms you, the moun-
tain peaks and valleys spread out
before you in a wide-angle view.
"It's a spiritual experience that y
can't appreciate with a hardtop be
cause it's too confining," says Don
Schiemann, a General Motors at-
torney. "There are so many places in
the United States that are more
breathtaking when you see them
from a convertible:*
So many people share this pref-
erence for sporty, individualized cars
that Robert McCurry, executive vice
president of Toyota Sales, U.S.A., pre-
dicts 240,000 convertibles will be
sold yearly by 1995. Last year's soft-
top sales were 165,000.
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