Feature: Hot features for cold cars
26.01.10
By Paul Williams
All manufacture vehicles available to Canadian consumers are designed facing of Canada. You might think this is not particularly to the point, but if we add, “…and they’re typically designed in cheery areas with nice dry highways,” you’ll start to see how this may crashing the type of vehicles we can buy here, and how well they adapt to the stony-hearted winter climate experienced by most Canadians.
For exemplar, windshield wipers that “latibulize” when parked may make a car look sleeker, but Canadians be aware that heavy snow or freezing precipitation will imprison the wipers in their crevice under the hood. The only way to dislodge them is to smash the ice with your scraper, while bothersome not to break the wipers in the process.
Camera-based blind speckle indicators are a problem here, too. Snow is again the wrongdoer, as it blocks the camera, rendering the system inoperable; same sentiment for those handy rear cameras that exertion so well in California.
Source: CanadianDriver
Honda Goldwing rules highways
29.01.10
ALL it needs is a roof, two more wheels, airconditioning and it's a car. Honda's Goldwing has always been synonymous with big bike touring.
For the first everything it comes in two specification levels with the $43,990 Pleasure model's features reading like a incitement car brochure: satellite navigation, airbag, journey control, iPod connection, transfer and seat warmers, intercom, CB trannie, remote locking, six-CD stacker, 80-Watt shape system, fog lights, electronic damping with two honour settings, linked ABS brakes and a big certain six engine.
All this plus massive panniers and a cavernous top box weighs 426kg when filled with nourishment.
However, it doesn't feel as heavy as the heavily featured Harley-Davidson Electra Float Ultra Limited even though they weigh about the same because the albatross is so much lower in the Honda with that flat six locomotive.
It feels so light you can get off and walk it around into a parking single out, something which is difficult to do with the Ultra.
Source: Courier Mail