I reached out to Rally Tops, as they are sorely lacking details on their product page, and they were kind enough to pass along a photo of their prototype:
Nice, they have a tan version. I want to see what that looks like.
Agreed, I’m fairly frustrated with the whole hardtop fiasco. The soft top does nothing for road noise and is a rattle trap when off road. It may be the reason I let the Bronco go instead of dropping $5K on a hardtop which may or may not help.
Correct, I don’t come with previous convertible vehicle experience beyond driving with the top down. With that said I’ve given it 11 months and I still find it unacceptable “my opinion”. It’s not holding up well, chaffing/tear on the rear, rattles at mid hinges, road noise permeates easily through plastic windows. We avoid taking the Bronco on freeway drives longer due to fatigue from the road noise. If your doing surface streets it’s tolerable. I don’t think the issue is Ford’s per say, I think in general it’s just soft top behavior that I underestimated my tolerance for.
Yeah zero real pics means I don’t consider this an option for now
To add to this, here’s the production unit:
The website currently lists it as $4k. I banged up my softtop, backing into the garage like an idiot…I’d much rather spend $4K than $6 elsewhere…even without the defrost and wiper! Kinda annoying that it won’t take factory roof rack setups though.
Personal experience here from 12 years driving a Wrangler with dual tops - don't expect a hardtop Bronco to be a huge improvement in noise. It helps... some. But it's never going to have an insulated, non-echoey feel like a non-convertible vehicle would. It's just not possible, even with added insulation. It's still going to be noisy on the interstate - just not quite as noisy as the soft top.
Thanks for posting the vid!!
