The term cabriolet can refer either to a kind of horse-drawn carriage or to a type of automobile: Horse-drawn carriage See: Main article: Carriage A Cabriolet is a light, two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse, with a folding hood, seating two people facing forward, one of whom is the driver. It has a large rigid apron, gracefully upward-curving shafts, and usually a rear platform between the C springs for a groom. The design was developed in France in the early nineteenth century and quic… (More on Cabriolet)