Surprisingly, the idea came from the 6 year-old daughter of a Honda engineer. While on a family road trip in her family's Honda Odyssey, she lamented there was no vacuum cleaner aboard to clean up her spilled food. Her father, a Honda engineer, brought the idea to the company's development team. Three years later, Honda has installed a vacuum cleaner in the Touring Elite trim level of its 2014 Odyssey due at dealerships this summer called the HondaVac.
While you may find this to be a humdrum advancement, any parent who has ever cleaned up crushed Cheerios from the inside of a car will rejoice. Designed with some help from the good folks at Shop-Vac, the vacuum is housed in a small compartment on the left side of the trunk. The hose is long enough to reach even the front of the car. It has a one-gallon collection tank along with an on-off switch. Spilled a snack up by the drivers side? No worries, it comes along with two attachments, perfect for reaching those crevices in between the seats. It works for up to eight minutes with the car turned off. It works indefinitely when the engine's running.
In our monthly Route 23 Honda Newsletter, we were interested to know what you all thought about the HondaVac....
We were actually shocked at the results, it was rather close! 58.8% of the voters gave it a Thumbs Up while 41.2% gave it a Thumbs Down!
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