Nik J Miles

Posts Tagged ‘Element’

Honda comes up with a Doggone good EX model

According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, Inc., 39 percent of all households own at least one dog with an estimated total U.S. dog population of 74.8 million, and in a 2008 estimate, all pet purchases and related products and services comprised an estimated total market value of more than $43 billion.

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San Francisco – It had been three years since we’d driven the quirky-looking Honda Element, so we decided to borrow one while in the Bay area visiting family for the holidays.

Introduced initially in 2003, the Honda Element was one of the first of the distinctive boxy looking wagons, which include the Scion xB, Kia Soul and Nissan Cube.  Of the group, the Element is the largest, heaviest, most powerful and most expensive.  A couple of other features that set the Element apart from the competition is it is available with all-wheel drive and has the ability to tow a small trailer (up to 1,500 pounds). Read the rest of this entry »