Most of us are now only too aware of the benefits of air conditioning after the hot summer months in the UK over the last few years. You may have been tempted to buy a convertible, but for those of us lucky enough to own cars with air conditioning, closing the windows and switching it on is the cool way to go.
For others, the only relief from the heat comes in the form of shopping centres where air conditioning is taken for granted as part of the shopping experience. It’s only now that European manufacturers have started to take it seriously and have begun to offer factory-installed systems on even basic models (air-conditioned Fiestas, of all things!); that attention is finally focused on air conditioning. The irony of all this is that these systems have been
