The system uses odour sensors on the outside of the car. When the sensors detect an unpleasant aroma, the system automatically closes the intake vents to stop the air getting in.
It can then release a leafy 'forest' smell, created using essential oils, into the car to combat any whiffs that manage to get through.
— From The astonishing new air-con that blocks unpleasant smells from even entering into your car at the Daily Mail. The car in question is the Nissan Fuga saloon.
This feature would certainly come in handy when we drive into Philly [which we do regularly] and we go through this industrial area between Philly and Wilmington DE that has has the most foul odor. And it always gets through, no matter if the windows are up and the “recirc” control is on – that bad boy invades the car and assaults you!
I go through one spot every day that smells horrible too. I always thought it was from the slaughterhouses, but they shut those down and the smell is still there. Blech.
BTW Boojum – I finally sampled the Green, Green, Green, etc. you gave me and it’s really nice – I like it a lot.
Pretty sure I know just where you mean. Yeah, might be worth it in that case.
Robin – were you talking to me or Boo? If to me, do you know what the heck that place is?! It’s the wierdest, most unpleasant stench.
To you. We’re talking all along the Delaware river, right? If so, those are mostly oil refineries.
Exactly – along the Delaware River. P.U.!!
I wonder if I was picking up my friend freshly doused in MKK would the windows roll up and the doors lock before he was halfway to the car?
ROFL! Excellent.
I don’t know . . . sometimes you just have to smell unpleasant things. I mean, what is a drive through the country without the occasional skunky smell?
I agree — just as two people can have different opinions as to what smells good, they can differ on what smells bad, too… I don’t love bus exhaust, but life would be poorer without whiffs of cow manure, hot asphalt, and the KFC Fry-o-lator.
It’s not something that bothers me.
Oh, I don’t mind a manure smell at all & I can handle skunk. The acrid fumes I’m referring to above are some man-made, probably poisonous, cancer causing, bad, bad odors.
It just isn’t a drive through the midwest without the whiff of skunk, decomposing deer from the ditch, crop fertilizer and farm animal manure here and there. The CEO and I were always puzzled why one stretch of road smelled so strongly of basil and other herbs until we asked a long time resident he works with and found out there’s a spice factory in that area. It’s quite a nice smell, really. And of course, Battle Creek, which is about twenty minutes away, always smells like a giant bowl of Corn Flakes/Rice “Krispies” due to the Kellogg company headquarters and factory that’s located there.
The one smell I could certainly do without, both from the drive by perspective as well as wafting on the air during the warmer months, is the heartbreakingly foul Kalamazoo River. We had a lot of paper plants here who used to freely dump waste into it, and it got so bad we earned an infamous Life magazine cover shot from 1953 showing tons of dead fish floating belly up on the heavily polluted surface. Any car that could fight that off would be a good car indeed.
Oh my. Would not want to live in Battle Creek then!
This reminds me of how fun it is to drive up US101 through the garlic fields of Gilroy, Calif.
What I learned today: Saloon is the British term for what we call a “sedan.”
Saloon car sounds better than sedan, no?
Sounds like a partymobile!
I know I am in the minority but I sort of like the smell of skunk. When we drive up to our cabin we always catch a whiff along the road and I never seem to mind. I grew up on a farm in Iowa and moved to the big city in my early 20’s. When I married a city boy he was both enchanted and slightly alarmed by my ability to determine what sort of farm we were driving by on smell alone. “They raise cows.” “This one is hogs.” “Poultry, ugg.” It’s not a party skill or one that pays, but it is entertaining on a long car ride. LOL.
Noo, I have a love/hate thing w/skunk smell. I think it’s directly correlated to how strong it is. There’s something pleasant about a light whiff of it, but a full blast? Not so much.
Yes, a full blast right outside my bedroom at 3am on a summer night is not my favorite, but driving quickly through a bit is somehow… “nice”, if that’s the right word. But hey, I also enjoy civet.
Not at all…many people like it! It’s come up here before.