Ford rolls out 'allergy-free' car

(Credit: Autoblog)

It's probably not generally known to the allergy-free public, but we pollen sufferers have been known to stay in our cars for temporary relief. Why? Because it's as close to a controlled air system as we can get, next to a plastic bubble. So it's actually not so weird that a major automaker has created what it calls an allergy-free model, especially at the height of hay fever season.

With its "Mondeo," which is about to go on the European market, Ford claims to have accomplished this by "abolishing chrome and nickel from the cockpit, using low-emission adhesives and allergen-tested textiles and leathers," according to Newlaunches, resulting in an "allergy-tested seal of approval from the German TUV Rhineland group." The upholstery, floor mats and even the steering wheel have been dermatologically tested, and it has a pollen filter to boot. (We hope it's not pine-scented.)

If all this works as planned, we may move out of our house altogether and live in a Mondeo down by the river.

[bloody13]

comfort...

It's amazing that Ford has come up with this idea for its Ford Mondeo. To think that this isn't a big detail but still Ford has given attention to it. Having this, Ford not only creates quality parts like Ford oxygen sensors- <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.oxygensensorwholesale.com/ford.html" target="_newWindow">http://www.oxygensensorwholesale.com/ford.html</a> -it also will create a vehicle where there's comfort with some consolations.

[kyler]

Using volvo to its fullest

Ford is really taking volvo for all its worth - using everything to make the five-<br />hundred/taurus/mercury able to get top-picks from IIHS, using their anti-roll <br />program, and now their air-quality sensors/materials used in the V70/S80. Yet <br />theirs a rumor going around saying ford is selling volvo? why again?

[make_or_break]

It's what happens when you're short on profit...

...and have LOTS of key shareholders breathing down your neck to DO something, and fast. Ford's still paying the price for the excesses and inattentiveness towards quality control of the Carlos Goshn era. That's the reason for them shedding a money maker like Aston Martin is these days (after all of those years of investment and losses). And now it's the same reason they're having to move Volvo.<br /><br />Personally, I think they're idiots. If any division should've been sold, it's Ford itself (both their North American and European operations). Then that annual money bleeder, Jaguar. There would be plenty of venture capital money willing to take on the historic Ford name, and certainly Jaguar, and more than willing to shed the bloat that Ford themselves can't seem to do on their own. But then again, with a Ford running the corporation, it would be like destroying the family heritage to do such a thing. Henry would definitely be spinning in his grave, not that he's not doing it already given the company's current problems.

[oxtail01]

Need allergic-free consumer cars

It's great if they can get consumers into their cars. They need to first overcome allergic reactions caused when consumers approach Ford vehicles.