When the news that Dyson added a handheld vacuum to its reach reached my ears, I was excited. This is a brand known for its advanced technique; Its border-pushing design. What innovations would it come to the brand new Dyson car+boat?
It turns out, not many. When I removed my review model, it felt well known. The specifications also seemed very similar to what I remembered from another vacuum. Then i got my old dyson v8 out to compare and had a lindsey lohan Parent trap moment. The car+the boat not only looked like the V8, it was identical. To create the car+the boat, Dyson has taken a V8, removed the stick and the floor head and jumped a new attachment in the box. It even says ‘Dyson V8’ on the box in my review model.
All Dyson’s Stick -Vacuum can be transformed into a handheld model by removing floor water and adding a detailed tool, so if you already have a newer dyson, you may feel exposed if you decided to shell out for a car+boat. Two of the three attachments included in the car+boat are also bundled in as standard with Dyson’s Stick Vacuum – namely the crevice tool and combination tool. I assume that the third (a new handheld attachment) will also be added to Dyson’s accessory store at some point.
I am writing this the day before the new model is sold to the public and there is a chance that Dyson has moved his wording to make it clearer that the car+boat is not a new model when it is officially released to the public. I think it would be a good move, because if you are aware of it, the fact that the car+the boat is the same as V8, not necessarily a bad thing. Let me explain …
A practical solution?
When I first heard about this model, I said I thought it seemed to blow up other handhelds out of the water, and now I have tested it properly to my Dyson Car+Boat Review, many of the things I was originally excited to turn out to be just as impressive in practice.
V8 is not the best Dyson wakuum based on specifications. It came out in 2016, and there are currently three newer vacuum in the set -up: Dyson V11, V15 Detect and Gen5Detect. However, V8 is The best option for handheld use. It is the easiest of the three (significantly in the case of the latest Gen5Detect, which is bells in a 7.7 kg compared to the V8’s 5.6 kg). It is also the most compact and therefore better to get into awkward hooks and hooks.
In fact, I will go so far as to say that the V8 is better suited to use as a handheld than it is like a floor vacuum. The dust cup is a bit annoyingly small for a vacuum throughout the home, but generous for a handheld. The same goes for the life of the battery – 50 minutes may not be enough time to clean a large home, but it is more than enough for a car and much longer than you get with even the best car valu space on the market.
You do not get suction-maximizing in-line design introduced with V11 (where cyclones, stick and dust cup are all stacked in a line), but it may be less of a problem when the suction head is so close to the engine rather than all the way at the end of A stake.
In short, V8 is still an excellent handheld vacuum. I would be excited to see what Dyson could come up with if it tried something really new in the handheld vacuum area.
