With a heat wave sweeping over SoCal, I was extremely grateful for getting the Mitsubishi Eclipse this weekend. My real car is an old Corolla with an A/C that emits a funny smell every time I use it and even then it doesn't do a thorough job of keeping me cool. But with the Eclipse, I found that if you twist the temperature knob all the way to blue (forget about setting it to 60 degrees) and the fan to full blast, even if the car has been sitting in the sun, the cabin cools down in a jiffy. I had some trouble trying to adjust the vents to blow on me though...
The cold air never seemed to hit me where I wanted it to. But that became a nonissue once the interior's temperature dropped from Scorching Hell to Heavenly Frosty.
16,621 miles
Caroline Pardilla, Production Editor
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