CONVERTIBLE MOTOR-VEHICLE WITH RETRACTABLE RIGID ROOF AND METHOD OF RECONFIGURATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE WITH RETRACTABLE RIGID ROOF

A convertible motor vehicle (is described, comprising a body; a passenger compartment; a front and a rear with a load compartment; and a retractable hardtop; the motor vehicle is capable of being selectively switched to a first configuration in which the hardtop is at least partly arranged so as to cover the passenger compartment; and a second configuration in which the hardtop is at least partly housed within the load compartment; the hardtop comprises with reference to the normal travel direction of the motor vehicle and in a plan view orthogonal to a third axis transverse to the first and second axes: a first panel arranged so as to cover, at the top, a first portion of the passenger compartment in the first configuration of the motor vehicle and housed in the load compartment in the second configuration of the motor vehicle; and a second panel arranged so as to cover, at the top, a second portion of the passenger compartment both in the first configuration and in the second configuration of said motor vehicle.