Just imagine, softball sized uber dense hail. After three or four hits, the roof caves in, then you can hope for that lightening strike to finish you off. No place to hide! Probably a good idea to join a medieval recreation group and carry a few shields in the car just in case.

 

I guess another OCD way I think a glass roof would be an advantage is: suppose you take it to the track, or are in really bad rainy weather, and happen to flip the car over- lets suppose.

if you're in a glass roof car, and stuck on the side and the car is on fire, and the glass is broken through -- You may have a snowballs chance to get out the top of the car!

In a metal car, you may not have that option--

Another scenerio would be that you flip the car over in a drag race down the strip and somehow the glass breaks and ends up in the side of your neck, or head... that would suck

Or, a realistic situation is- your warranty is up, and one day you get in your car and get caught in a massive downpour- and notice water dripping from somewhere down onto your seats... what the..!

But the glass roof cars, are still nice in my opinion. My wife wants it. Says it gives the car a more open feel to it. We looked at it- and it seemed nice.

I want one, I dont want one, I want one, I dont want one...

 

Thank goodness for overpasses!

 

Another reason to not want a glass roof. It's too important to have stripes go all the way from front to back.

I suppose you could put stripes on the glass. Might help hold it together a bit more.

 

Excellent! The fears keep getting more irrational!

Glass is an insulator. Lightning will not hit the glass roof, and it sure as **** will not go through it and kill you. There is a bigger chance of a martian UFO landing on your car. Which I would not be the slightest bit surprised to see you also believe could happen.

Hail that is big and powerful enough to go through the glass roof is going to be powerful enough to go through the metal roof as well. The glass roof is tempered, laminated safety glass that is quite thick. It is as strong, if not stronger, than a windshield, since optical clarity is not as much of a concern. If a piece of hail is strong enough to shatter the glass, it will get caught in the laminate, and you might get showered with DULL chunks of glass from the other side, but it will not go through.

And, if the hail is strong enough to be shattering your glass roof, frankly, you have much bigger problems than a shattered glass roof.

Use common sense, people. It isn't that hard.

 

So you're saying that I don't have to worry about the Texas sun melting the glass and that dripping glass burning my skin off?

 

How else can you protect the roof from hail?

 

I think ipodintampa was joking...I hope

 

I plan on installing a miniaturized version of an anti-missile defense system on my roof. That way I'm also protected from the Russkies. And hungry vultures.

 

SHEESH!

What a ridiculous thread...

You guys know that this isn't Fords first go-round with a glass roof car, right?

They had them back in the late fifties originally.

 

if there happens to be no wind and you are just sitting not driving in your car in a hail storm?



all this talk about hail, my issue here would be heat, 120+ and a glass roof....

 

Sounds like a I need a glass Mustang.

 

mines called a 91 taurus...just runs and runs,and i don't worry about anything!