Elemental Glory said:
As for your very negative comment on the doors.....
Once you have owned an E you quickly learn the open the front door and allow the person in the rear to exit and then if you are leaving too you too would get out. hard to descibe exactly but everyone that has one understands. Also if they did Make the E so that the rear doors could open independatly you would have to have a stationary pillar that would hinder loading the vehicle.
If you have any QUESTIONS please ask, people here would love to help you in answering them. As for all the complaints with nothing constructive to add.....go to the scion website or something.
What's with the attitude? The whole topic of this "Dear Honda" page of posts is, and I quote, "an area to speak out to Honda about what you'd like to see in future versions of the Element." Forgive me if I have misinterpreted that, but this thread strikes me as a perfectly appropriate place to mention the changes I suggested. These are the ones I wish for. You don't have to own a vehicle to understand what you like and dislike about it. As a potential buyer who has spend a lot of time researching, inspecting and testing this vehicle, I think I have as much right to wish for things as a current owner. Feel free to disagree but that's where I stand and as such I stand by my post. Furthermore, I don't know everything, so I have been asking questions. That's why I joined this forum. I have been searching, reading, and posting questions--and getting great information. However this thread was titled to suggest it's a place to make wishes rather than ask questions, which is why I was making wishes instead of asking questions in that post.
As for the sliding visor, I didn't know they pulled out, even after several discussions about it with various Honda salesmen who failed to point that out (should I be surprised?). So thank you for that tidbit. So you can move it back and forth in the 07 but does it actually cover the whole top of the window like in older models? I live in a very sunny climate and that's a constant battle around here, so I might still wish for the old style which I can get if I buy an older E.
About the doors, you have obviously missed my point. I mentioned wishing for a way to open the HATCH from inside, not the back doors --I understand why the rear doors don't open by themselves. While the door trick may work to let riders out in normal situations, what about in an emergency situation or while camping in the vehicle? A way to open the back hatch and get out the rear would be really nice. I am obviously not alone in that desire or there wouldn't be a bunch of how-to pages for that project. Yes I have seen the posts on how to add your own, so I know I can retro-engineer it, but that doesn't stop me from wishing they'd save me the trouble.
