As a speedster humps "user", i know about impractical roof procedures. But i don't care! Don't care to stop somewhere, to get the humpster off & roof back up. Roof stays down in summer anyways. Same goes for the spyder.
In my eyes the 987 spyder is not an ugly duckling, but a flawed pearl ... it is recommended not to go faster than 200km/h with that roof. For Germany, that is an absolute NO GO. Anywhere else it shouldn't matter.
The 981 spyder has no roof restrictions, as far as i know. Therefor the 981 spyder is THE spyder to get. Still wonder how the 981.2 spyder looks like...hopefully with an oldschool flat 6