I love driving with the top down, oddly enough I generally don't like the wind from a hardtop with the windows rolled down, especially at highway speeds, but I find the that drving an old british roadster on the highway for hours with the top down is like total immmersian therapy or something, it clears my mind and relaxes me. that being said I too run around for long trips with the top up more often these days, I fried my skin way to often over the years and have had a few cancerous spots taken off (the slow growing kind, but cancer nonetheless according to the doc) so have finally started to be a little more careful. I sort of have to laugh at the skin cancer exposure questions where they ask if you have gotten a severe sunburn three or more times in your life or something like that, worked and played in the sun all the time growing up, burned then tanned over and over again, then toured around in roadsters on long highways trips in my mid years and fried myself again, oh well, wouldn't do it different if I had to do it over again...too many great memories.