This was an unseasonably warm weekend here in L.A. with temps near 90 and the sun shining brightly most of the time. Not really something to complain about, eh? However, while driving the Civic Si I noticed that the cabin seemed to heat up pretty quickly when the car was parked. The chief culprit is most likely the massive windshield, which, like that of a minivan or Lamborghini Murcielago (never thought those two would be mentioned in the same sentence!) is so steeply raked that it continues quite a ways over the cabin.
The big windscreen is great for outward visibility, but the result is a "greenhouse effect" that admits a lot of sunlight, and hence passive solar heating, into the cabin. Great in the winter time, not so much on a hot day.
John DiPietro, Automotive Editor @ 15,830 miles.
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