MOST Hong Kong car distributors are extremely reluctant to allow their test cars out in the rain.
The measure is meant to preserve the test fleet as long as possible by preventing over-zealous journalists and potential customers losing control in slippery conditions and running the latest model into the scenery.
With this in mind, I assumed that the rain and high winds that apparently took a Boeing 747 airliner to a watery grave off the end of the Kai Tak runway would also cancel my test drive of the new flagship Eunos, the 800.
But that wasn't the case at all.
A phone call to Eunos PR department confirmed the test drive was still on and it was anxious that the car should be tested in the worst possible conditions.
The 800 is fitted with the brains and gadgets that are supposed to make this sort of driving safer and a rain storm was considered a lucky happening.
