Hi all as we move into the colder months I’m wondering if anyone has found a sensibly priced hard top for the mk2 ND? I’ve seen the ones in the states at +/- $1500 but cant see anything yet here in the uk. I’m thinking of something like those fitted to NC’s previously to make it a little warmer this winter.
Cheers
Simon
…never seen a hard top for an ND???..no Frankenstiein bolts…how would it fit??
…also never had a problem with cold weather as the heater works well even with the roof down??
…could you get some heated seats???
There is a Mazda approved option in tbe USA but only for the Cup race cars. Mazda’s Drop-Head concept has a carbon hardtop, and there are aftermarket options from Nopro and Rallybacker, not seen anything in the UK sadly.
I’m sure it will be plenty warm enough with the heater and I have heated seats - just figured it would be nicer with a hard top👍🏻
Surely the hard top option for the ND is to buy an RF 
a bit more than I was thinking of spending:wink:
No basically, no options. It would be very expensive to get one from the US and questionable as to how water tight they actually are. The Fiat Abarth one fitted apparently but are extremely rare.
The Fiat was available with the hardtop so it is possible.
I suspect that you take out the plastic trim. I also think it could be the same pressings in that area as the mk3. The jack mountings look the same on both.
Two problems for you, finding one and then price.
So the consensus is that this fits? https://moparstore.co.uk/carbon-fiber-hard-top-124-spider-abarth-52101279.html
The price, though… 
I would say so. The two cars have the same structure and hood. You can see the chrome fastener bits in the picture. Any mk3 owners recognise them?
$1300
Because NA/NB hardtops are so cheap in the UK compared to the US, there is a fair amount of discussion about shipping costs from the UK to US. The consensus is about $1000. So $2300 for a hardtop? Its not an insane number, though I doubt that hardtop will be anywhere near what you expect a factory quality hardtop to be (you need to sort out rubber seals for a start). As I recall, back in the day, a new hardtop from Mazda for a NA/NB was about £1500.
Personally I wouldn’t bother.
Last winter in my soft top ND I was warmer than any tin top car I’ve ever owned.
Plus of course the option to throw the top down on nice days is always there!
I’m with you here JJW. Last year was my 1st winter with the ND and with heated seats along with an excellent heating system, it was never anything less than toasty. And on a bright, chilly winters day, nothing better than dropping the hood (even though it draws a few quizzical glances from the non initiated)!
Just… Why? The ND soft top is an all-weather car. Great heater and aircon, heated seats… And think of those great roof-down sunny winter days you’ll miss out on if you hobble your car with a… knarly top!
The heater should be plenty warm enough. Just add on a wooly hat. In my experience with my nbfl, it actually gets too hot sometimes. And as others have already mentioned, on a good winters day you put the roof down with the heater on. Aerodynamics mean the heat will be trapped inside the cockpit as long as you’re travelling @30mph + in the same way that light rain will stay out.
On the other hand, a hardtop will extend soft top life. Those on a PCP won’t care about that though; someone else’s problem.
At least with other models, a properly fitted hardtop will stiffen the body shell.
You don’t buy a soft top to sit under a gnarly plastic roof. You don’t compromise the joy of open top motoring ‘to extend the life of the soft top’. By that logic, you’d put the car in a plastic cocoon in a garage and never use it!
The ND is plenty stiff enough, and no gnarly bit of plastic stuck on the top of it will make it any stiffer.
There are always outliers - odd folk who do odd things.
Neither did I. I assumed ‘for the winter’ as is obvious from my post.
I did. Is English not your first language? Do you have any ‘conditions’ that might explain this odd observation?
No idea what this is about. And frankly, I don’t care.
Have fun!
As an excellent visual representation of how well insulated the soft top is, my hood was still white over with frost after a 20 mile drive to work this morning.