Silver Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Rental in Los Angeles

Silver is the colour that suits an open car in Los Angeles better than any other. It stays cool through an afternoon parked with the roof down, it does not glare back at you off the bonnet on a bright coast drive, and against the black fabric roof and the black grille it gives the Camaro a cleaner, less shouty face than a red or a yellow one.

It is also the practical shade for the way this car gets used — long days out, roof down, salt in the air on the way back from Malibu. Silver hides the fine road film a coast run leaves behind, and it photographs well in the flat hard light of the middle of the day when a dark car turns into a mirror. Take it for a week of driving rather than for a single dramatic evening.

There is a specific thing people come to Los Angeles to do: put the roof down and drive north on the PCH with the ocean on the left. The Camaro Convertible is the least expensive car in this fleet with the presence to do it properly. The roof is a proper powered fabric top, it stows completely under a hard tonneau so the car looks like a roadster rather than a coupe with the lid off, and it takes about half a minute.

Underneath, it is a wide, low, rear-drive American coupe. The seating position is deep and the bonnet is long, which is most of what makes it feel like a muscle car; it is quick enough to be entertaining on an on-ramp and relaxed at freeway speed with the top up. The boot is small with the roof stowed — think two soft bags, not two suitcases.

Honest hook: the rear seats are for bags and the over-the-shoulder visibility is poor, which is true of every car of this shape. It is bought for the roof and the noise, and it delivers both.