IF you’ve ever looked out of the window on a frosty morning and had that sinking feeling – ‘I must mentally allow five minutes for clearing the car windows of frost’ – then the benefits of a heated front windscreen are all too obvious.
This morning wasn’t one of those, though. The Volvo V40 Cross Country I’m testing is fitted with a heated front windscreen.
OK, you have to clear the side windows and rear window – plus the lights, of course – but nothing like the deeply encrusted frost on the front windscreen.
Except you don’t. Just press defrost on the heated front windscreen button – part of the £500 Winter Pack option that includes heated front seats – and watch the frost disappear.
It happens quickly, too.
By the time I’d whipped out my iPhone and found the camera icon, the white-out screen was already looking like this:
Seconds later, and the screen was completely clear:
It’s a great innovation – something for which Volvo have to grateful to former owner Ford for introducing – and one I would heartily recommend.
If you’re a business car manager of an SME small fleet thinking about the safety aspect of your company car management, then this is a simple win.
