Europeans love this convertible, and now North Americans can see firsthand why this Volkswagen is like no other car. It’s the world’s first four-seat hardtop convertible with an integrated, tinted glass sunroof. VW likes to describe the Eos as a CSC (coupe-sunroof-convertible). Take this car for a test drive, and find out why the owner’s manual points out that repeatedly putting the top up and down, can run down the battery. The cool factor revolves around the way this 5-panel roof automatically puts itself into the trunk. It only takes about 25 seconds, but the process has to be seen, and seen often. Even with the top down, the trunk has 6.6 cubic feet of space. The roof is packaged atop a three-sided cargo storage unit, which means luggage or other stuff can be stowed within this unit.

As a two-door, four seat coupe, this car makes all riders feel special. Granted, there’s not very much legroom for rear seat passengers, but the front seats have buttons and a handle to enable automatic forward or rearward movement of the front seat as well as front seat tumble. The offshoot of that is that entering and exiting the rear seat is very simple and fast. The Eos offers a 200 horsepower 4 cylinder or a 250 horsepower V6 engine. Options for the VW Vos with V6 include an adaptive front lighting system, meaning the low-beam headlamps swivel horizontally (maximum rotation is 15 degrees) at highway speeds when the steering wheel is turned or the turn signal is activated. Eos with V6 and six-speed automatic transmission has per gallon fuel economy of 22 city/29 highway. MSRP of the V6 powered car is $36,850.