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No Damned Fun at All
Wouldn't ya know it, some people just can't leave well enough alone:
A Michigan environmental group is charging that at least part of the so-called "new car smell" is toxic, and that the interior of an automobile has dangerous levels of various chemicals.The report, "Toxic at any speed," comes from The Ecology Center, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based group. It reports that PBDEs, used as fire retardants, and phthalates, used primarily to soften PVC plastics, are found in dangerous amounts in dust and windshield film samples.
Yes, standard press release reporting, but even the newsie seems to try to distance themself from these cranks.
Gotta deal for you greenies who buy into this. You give me your new car, I'll give you my old one.
I'll certainly trade some base model Kia for your Spider - sounds fair, no?
Posted by: ronaprhys on February 2, 2006 02:38 PMYou don't even own a car! :P :)
Posted by: scott on February 2, 2006 03:12 PMActually, I do - but I don't drive it. Amber does. That being said, I get to drive a car that looks like an unmarked - now with cop car tires (2, at least). All I need is the window tinting and I'm pimp-styling!
Posted by: ronaprhys on February 2, 2006 04:42 PMI always hated new-car smell. I never thought of it as anything but nasty chemicals. It's like drinking from pewter mugs--sure, it's a status symbol, but it tastes terrible!
Posted by: DensityDuck on February 3, 2006 08:44 AMOddly enough, the Crown Vic really didn't have that overwhelming new car smell. It only had 6 miles on it, so it wasn't really driven prior to my getting it - but no smell. Maybe they're figuring out how to get around that.
Posted by: ronaprhys on February 3, 2006 08:46 AM