GM: Air condition the trunk!

$1000 option? For shopping, I just put the bags with the ice cream and meat on the front seat, in the shade, and aim a vent at it. Works so far. Long check-out time is what melts ice cream. "Features" don't sell as many cars as quality, and standing behind the quality.

--Vic

Yes. Usually my plan too. But then I have to listen to the seatbelt chime half the way home...

And no, I'm not going to disconnect it... I find it preferable to let the car nag reluctant passengers than to do it myself.

I'm the same way when it comes to the seatbelt chime. My Dad always asks "how do I shut that damned thing off"? And I say "try putting your seatbelt on". Works every time.

You are both more generous than I am. I tell my passengers that my car won't start until I hear that click. Wanna argue? Get out and walk.

Buckle the belt around the bags. Makes the chime go away and helps hold your groceries in place when some idiot pulls out in front of you.

Just pick up a Coleman electric cooler. Toss it in the trunk and connect it to 12 V power. They use a peltier junction device. Connected in normal mode it cools, reverse the polarity and you can use it to keep food hot!

VW had a cool box in the dash, I believe...Same technology. Could possibly be useful

Actually the trunks of most cars ARE cooled by the AC, via vents in the trunk. Put a thermometer in your trunk and see for yourself if your cars trunk is one that is cooled, WBMA

Now I know why I don't pay much attention to your posts.

He is probably the remaining GM engineer.

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Yep pretty retarted. KB

Not sure what you point is unless it's that GM, at least at one time, ran the inside conditioned air thru the door jam vent which then exited thru the trunk, thereby cooling the trunk with the exiting AC air.

I'm usually the same, but I was always taught not to kick Dad out of the car ;)

I think the new Dodge Nitro (perhaps another model), has a cooler built into the dash, where the glove box would be on most cars. Neat idea, but like someone else said, the trunk is usually cool as it is, and if you are going to the beach, or a long road trip, you're better off taking a cooler anyways.

I've got a car with a fold down back seat. It's nice when you are putting skis in the trunk or even a 2 X 4 board. Anyway, if you fold the seat down, the trunk is air conditioned. I'll sell this "new" invention to you. If the price is right, I'll even throw in some styrofoam that you can use to insulate it.

P.S. The car is a 1998 model.

If you're grocery shopping and have a long drive home, just fold the back seat down.

nate

So freeze your own ice and invest $20 into your own 50 quart cooler. What's the problem here??? Who the hell needs $1000 a/c in a truck when you can BUY A $20 INSULATED COOLER!!!!!!

Yup nothing like losing valuable storage space so you can keep a can of soda pop cool. I mean why invest in a $10-$20 insulated cooler when the car companies will sell you one for $1000.

Tell me why Chrysler is bankrupt yet again?

It'll be the mobsters car!

2011 Chevrolet Caprice Classic with trunk cooling, capable of preserving bodies in transportation