This is such a lame effort to give an OK to the "new car smell". NOTHING has been proven by this supposed study.

Here's one of the major problems: they selected certain chemicals that were emitted by both new and old cars in the hot sun. This does not make a proper scientific study.

I am very sensitive to sickness from new cars. It doesn't matter that I can't smell the odor since I have lousy olfactory senses. Even when I could smell nothing in my parents new car, I was still getting sick by breathing its new-car air. Once the car finally off-gases the worst of what makes me sick, I'm fine in the car. It really aggravates me because I otherwise really like new cars--just get nauseated by them.

In order to properly study the effects of toxic air in new cars, they need to use people who are very sensitive to determine which chemicals most cause nausea and other sicknesses, and then test those, rather than chemicals they pre-suppose to be a problem based on a hot sun causing gases to become emitted. It doesn't matter what the temperature is, I still get sick in a new car. The idea that "mindset" is a factor is laughable in my case. If there were any effect of "mindset", it would make me feel wonderful rather than sick to get into a new car.

Regardless of what they want to say, they are DEAD wrong. I could care less how many or few miles are on a car with regard to the air I have to breathe...it's all about how new/concentrated the toxic fumes are in a new car.