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Um, it comes with a built-in dinner warmer?
Honda Box has gone to the dogs.
That’s where I want to be on a 40-degree-Celsius day (100ish F) … in a hot, enclosed trunkline area with no air. Dogs like air too!
That’s an old dog. Look at the white on his or her muzzle. Climbing all the way up there can be difficult.
It’s a well known fact that large dogs do not like ventilation, cool temperatures, or enough space to move.
That statement that large Dogs don’t like Ventilation or Cool temperatures is completely wrong, I know I breed and Show Labrador Retrievers, will always remember once going to Chicago for a Show, its a good 11 hours from where we live, had to take the Dogs out of the Crates because they where very hot! Dogs no matter what size like to stay cool!!
George, unless I read it wrong, paul_y’s statement is dripping with sarcasm.
That dog has about as much space as the average Tokyo apartment dweller.
-ted
Why the criticism of a pet carrier? I must be missing something.
Why bother, when you can literally hose down the interior of an Element?
That dog is going to get car sick from not being able to look outside. (Good thing you can hose down the interior.)
“Young people in Asia”?
In Asia they call that a “Box lunch”
@Tosh: The joke, if I read it correctly, is that operating the vehicle like that would quick euthanize the dog.
Tosh, I think you’ll find it’s “Youth in Asia”. At least for poochie, it will be.
OK I get the ‘euthanasia.’ I still think the car is sitting still, so I guess the funny is lost on me…
Ali G Say: “Yo, but what has dat dog got to do wif da youf in Asia?”
Looks like that dog may be this eveing’s dinner if this is asia.
If Hitler had had a thing against dogs, he might have designed something like this.
“Get me the hell out of this ugly car, would you, boss?”
Where’s the rotisserie?
# Rday :
October 11th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Looks like that dog may be this eveing’s dinner if this is asia.
Rday,
In this age of hope and change one is only allowed to mock the food habits of Americans. Well, the food habits of Americans of non-color. You can joke about corn dogs and deep fried Snickers bars all you want.
My ex and I adopted a racing greyhound. Sadly she had to be euthanized due to metastasized bone cancer, a not uncommon malady in that breed. When she was healthy and I’d take her for walks, folks sometimes would ask if I “rescued” her. I’d tell them, with a straight face, “Oh no, I’m fattening her up for a Vietnamese restaurant”.
After reading about food markets in Hong Kong, I’m convinced that Asians will eat just about anything. When they see a new or exotic animal, their first thought must be, “I wonder what it tastes like.”
@KGrGunMan: +1 Internets!
http://www.rocketboom.com/know-your-meme-yo-dawg/
I got a e-survey for Honda about this. I own an Orange Element aka toaster. MY Great Dane, and 2 English Mastiff’s travel with me on occasion. THEY need the WHOLE back area.!
PS asked if I would spend a $1k on the dog option.
I rather leather, heated seats please!!
“In Asia they call that a “Box lunch””
Where’s your Engrish? Box runch!
Is this another one of those “wok” the dog schticks?
That’s an old dog. Look at the white on his or her muzzle. Climbing all the way up there can be difficult.
-This photo doesn’t show the ramp that comes with the dog kit. Really.
Why bother, when you can literally hose down the interior of an Element?
-Actually, no you can’t hose it out. Sweep yes. Hose, no.
The Element started out marketed towards the outdoors types, with the plastic floor, the tie down hooks, the optional camp table and the sunroof in the rear (for either your surfboard to stick out or to gaze at the stars while you slept inside (using the tent package!). Then when that didn’t work, Honda came out with the ridiculous street packages to compete with Scion. Now apparently they are going after dog lovers. Why can’t they leave well enough alone? It is a nice, cheap, easy to clean van. The kind no one makes any more.
To be honest, I’ll never understand this thing about crating a dog. OK, maybe in the car, when you’re taking it somewhere and you own a dog that does not exhibit good “car behavior”, but I’ve had friends who own dogs and leave them inside a crate at home all day long while they’re at work. I’m sorry, but that’s just plain wrong…
dwford:
I wouldn’t say it’s been a failure. It has never been a big seller, but it’s always sold pretty steady (and supply was going to be tight no matter what, more Elements = fewer US Civics/now CR-Vs). Considering its age, quite a successful “niche”. Just a rather smallish niche.
Interestingly, was not a hit when exported to Japan. However, has held value remarkably well for that market, after exports stopped (it took a while, but it built a cult).
That said, it’s one of those “polarizing” designs (I had friends threaten to disown me if I bought one). I didn’t (got a CR-V), but mostly because finding a good used one at a decent price was impossible.
Oh Minion, leather seats in an Element? Please take your place with the other CR-V drivers. I’m with you on the heat though.
dwford, you certainly can hose out the interior, but Honda doesn’t recommend it. I use a leaf blower, personally.
Ronnie Schreiber :
October 11th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
After reading about food markets in Hong Kong, I’m convinced that Asians will eat just about anything. When they see a new or exotic animal, their first thought must be, “I wonder what it tastes like.”
A Chinese joint I used to eat at got shut down after the health department found a bunch of skinned cats hanging by their tails in the walk-in. The owner said they were for the “employees’ personal use.”
I owned a 2006 Element. I don’t see how you can hose it out. There aren’t any drain holes for the water to exit through. The floor slopes towards the front seat foot wells, the spare tire well isn’t water proof, and the latches on the floor for the rear seats would just collect the water. Am I supposed to spray it down, then break out the shop vac?
I didn’t say it was a failure. I personally like the Element. I just don’t think Honda’s marketing department knows what to do with it.
That’s where I want to be on a 40-degree-Celsius day (100ish F) … in a hot, enclosed trunkline area with no air. Dogs like air too!
If this is Honda’s Dog Friendly version announced last Friday, the nylon crate is ventilated with a fan that plugs into the DC outlet in the back.
http://automobiles.honda.com/images/2010/element/downloads/element-dog-package-oct-9-press.pdf
So many people missed the pun and sarcasm…
This photos makes complete sense. The last time I was at a Honda dealer, a young couple came in to look at an Element and they each were the exact same shape. They say that people often look like their dogs (no offense to dogs), so they must have been shopping for a new car that fit both them and their dog.
What’s wrong? The Youth in Asia can’t buy the Honda Element.. Its an exclusive to America.
That said, talk to Element owners.. You’ll find that many of them are dog owners, and that this is a car ideally suited to their dog owning life. Honda’s marketing department finally figured out that 20 somethings weren’t buying this car for extreme sports use, but 40 somethings were buying to haul their dogs around in.
Could you live with yourself if good old Max died of thirst (spill-resistant bowl), heat stroke (ventilation fans), bed sores (cushioned cargo area) or blunt force trauma (safety restraints) during his last trip to the vet?
Who though crossing a lab with a sharp-pei was a good idea?
I’d ask “what’s right with this picture” and my answer would be that the Element is one of the very few SUV/CUV type vehicles available that actually has a by-God tailgate! My current ride is a 4runner and while I like most of its features the one piece liftup hatch is annoying.
I know tailgates disappeared because vertically challenged soccer moms didn’t like leaning over to put their groceries away, but I miss them.
Ya know..
For as much as I do love Honda Motor Company… and can carefully appreciate its various vehicles.. (if I smoked enough and or drank enough to appreciate shit like the RDX, ZDX, b.s between TL and TSX.. and the useless RL)..
This shit.. just bothers me.
How do ya charge 1g for the option of having a dog kit for the car?!
Seriously?
That would actually make people use the fuckin thing for 1/2 what its designed to do.
And we cant have that.. now can we?