Summer, come back! It is necessary. Mainly because of this BMW

When you say goodbye to the sun overhead, so stylishly. And it's hard to do it with more flair than in a four-seater BMW convertible.

You will not escape the views. Unmistakable dark paintwork, interior in light leather, roof at the bottom and the BMW brand. No, it's not possible. Introverts are not allowed behind the wheel of a BMW 430i convertible. Usually you have a thumbs up, but God forbid if you throw a mouse to someone in a hurry. At that moment, you are in a "fable" for a swarm. Probably forever.

Then there is one more thing that has provoked, is provoking and will provoke a lot of discussion. And that's design. Bow, mask, muzzle. What do you see? Okay, let's speed it up. Yes, teeth, beaver teeth. BMW wasn't afraid of it, it went into this radical transformation and from horizontal kidneys it ushered in an era of giant verticals.

And to those who do not seem so, they are unlucky. A reoperation that would change the giant kidneys again for smaller ones is not planned. Domagoj Dukec, the designer who is most responsible for this, stands his ground.

"If you want to create something that's distinctive, it has to be different. If you aim to attract any group of customers, you need to stand out. We can't please everyone, but we have to please our customers," he said in an interview.This game can probably be accepted. In the end, it's probably better than not talking about the new BMWs at all. And honestly, you can get used to them. Just a few days and the aversion is gone. At least I did. At the very least, you'll make up for it with the way this BMW drives.

The only bad luck was that it rained most of the loan week. In a convertible, a feeling of despair. It's like giving you the best ice cream far and wide, but it's fifteen below zero outside. Theoretically, you can lick it, but why would you do it. So we don't have to wait for it to get warmer.

However, even driving with a stretched roof is actually fine. That is, when the journey is not the destination, but mainly you need to get from place to place. The 258 hp two-litre petrol engine is simply a joy in conjunction with the eight-speed automatic with this rear wheel.

With a stretched canvas roof, you can then sprinkle it at highway speed. But it's even better with the M version, which has a little more horses. Exactly 510.

But back closer to the real world. In connection with speed, it is good to mention one more number, and that is ninety. With the "canvas" at the bottom, it is the limit when it is still possible. As soon as you want to go wild more, the wind and noise are already unpleasant even in the front seats. Don't even talk in the back. There, at a speed of ninety kilometers per hour, they probably stopped talking a long time ago and are amusing each other with what a funny permanent one has blown on the other's head.But still to the canvas overhead, to which BMW humbly returns from a solid folding roof after years. There are at least four reasons. One is weight, because the canvas roof is forty percent lighter.

The latter is technological. Canvas roofs are no longer a piece of fabric resembling a tent. You can calmly sprinkle on the highway beyond what is still allowed, and in a cage to talk with the one sitting next to you.The third reason you will understand if you look in the trunk. Even though the box for the folded roof takes up most of the space where a few suitcases would fit, it's still better than having to fold a sheet metal roof behind your back. This way you have 300 liters of space with the sun overhead. When it's cloudy, there's 85 litres more space in the trunk. Good for the trip.And the fourth one? Canvas belongs to the convertible and looks better. By the way, the roof can be pulled down and stretched in eighteen seconds up to a speed of fifty kilometers per hour, so in the city at any time. We just go back to the beginning. This overhead show attracts the eyes of everyone around. Introvert suffers. But an introvert doesn't buy a BMW convertible, does he.At least one more pleasant surprise with this car the new owner will experience. It is low consumption. And this is true even if you just want to drive the car along the D1, where it is necessary to deal with those gentlemen in slippers and with the film on the computer laid on the dashboard. Those who have a penchant for driving technique described as "a truck overtakes a truck and it overtakes another truck".

For a driver in an almost three-hundred-horsepower BMW on the Prague-Brno junction, who refuses to accept such a sad reality (in other words, I was just really in a hurry), it means that he will brake and accelerate about three times every five kilometers while driving constantly on the left in an attempt to drive something that awaits him again and again.So, driving gas-brake and the result is slightly over nine liters of gasoline per hundred. Fact. It surprised me too. Pleasantly. The smile on my face was spoiled only by those trucks in the double step, which overtook me again during refueling.

A convertible is a joy. The BMW 430i in the convertible is a joy. What is not joy is autumn and the fact that the black canvas will go down again sometime in the spring. And that you need at least one and a half million for this car, we will quietly pass it. Few great things are cheap.