Abstract: A convertible top for vehicles with a frame and a textile cover, in which two columns stretching the cover material are pivotal about an axis extending transversely to the vehicle and with a closed convertible top have a maximum distance from one another at the height of the upper edges of the side walls of an associated body; this maximum distance is adapted to be automatically reduced in the course of the folding-in operation by means of spring-loaded adjusting mechanisms as a function of the pivot angle of the columns stretching the cover material.

Abstract: A cooling arrangement for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, especially an internal combustion engine enclosed in a sound or noise absorbing shroud. The cooling arrangement includes a cooling air duct having an air intake and an air exhaust, with a radiator being disposed in the cooling air duct, which radiator cooperates with a fan disposed downstream thereof, as viewed in a normal flow direction of the cooling air. To improve the cooling capacity and the operating ranges of dynamic air ventilation, a regulating device is disposed in the air flow at a position downstream of the radiator, with the regulating device being adapted to regulate an air throughflow through the radiator. The regulating device is disposed in a vicinity of the air exhaust of the cooling air duct and the fan is located outside of the cooling air duct and connected to the air duct by a bypass cooling air conduit.