Just for clarity, you have three (3) roof options with the new Abarth: A solid roof, a solid roof with a movable hard sunroof, and the cloth top Cabrio.
I originally wanted one with a hard sunroof, but the mechanism to operate the sunroof eats into the available head room. I am not especially tall either, but sitting in the (closed) sunroof model in the show room, the top of my head hit the roof.
So instead I checked out the Cabrio. When closed, that model's cloth top is much thinner than either the solid roof or the hard sunroof models, so I have a good couple of inches of head room to spare. And as I noted earlier, I am very glad now that I got the Cabrio (aside from the head room issues) as that's a very unique and distinctive feature of this car which impresses everyone who sees it for the first time. This Cabrio top is one of the best attributes of the car, in my opinion. At any temperature over about 50 degrees F I have the top open, with or without the heater blowing hot air into the footwell as needed which washes over you as it exits out the top. Same idea as my old X.
And with the roof open the exhaust noise sounds really cool, especially when backing off the throttle as you get the occasional characteristic turbo pop and bang. For those who might not know, the car has no OEM mufflers, just the catalytic converter acting alone at the discharge of the turbo. It's a bit loud when your foot is deep into the throttle, but at a sedate cruising speed it's not at all noisy within the car.
DM