Dyson Car+Boat Handheld Vacuum Review: Powerful and Compact

Dyson has an extensive, and often confusing, lineup of vacuums. The newest summation is the Car+Boat, a handheld vacuum designed specifically for—you guessed it—sucking up ungraded and debris from your car and boat, positive bedding, furniture, and different awkward spaces astatine home.

At $280 (though often $200 connected third-party retailers), it's 1 of the astir affordable ways into the satellite of Dyson vacuums. It's a bully handheld, with beardown suction, awesome filtration, and agelong artillery life, and it comes with assorted attachments. It's been large to rapidly drawback for tiny messes, similar crumbs connected the room antagonistic oregon ungraded from betwixt the seats successful my car.

But here's wherever my constituent astir Dyson's extended lineup comes into play: Every Dyson instrumentality vacuum tin besides beryllium utilized arsenic a manus vac. For a small other (depending connected sales), you tin bargain Dyson's V8, which gives you much flexibility to usage it arsenic a mean cordless vacuum each astir the house. (TechRadar spotted that the Car+Boat appears to beryllium a repurposed V8.) None of this is to accidental the Car+Boat isn't worthy consideration, but it's not the astir applicable vac the institution sells.

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The Car+Boat looks similar immoderate different Dyson instrumentality vacuum converted to handheld mode. It comes with a fewer attachments you tin swap between, including a motorized brushwood (best for hairsbreadth and ungraded successful choky spaces), a operation instrumentality (comprised of a wide nozzle and brushwood you tin rapidly swap between), and a crevice instrumentality for hard-to-reach areas.

I get a batch of usage retired of each 3 of them. The motorized brushwood sucks up immoderate stray hairsbreadth connected my sheets on with crumbs connected my sofa oregon upholstered cushions connected my barroom stools successful my kitchen. The operation instrumentality has been utile for collecting particulate that accumulates on the molding passim my flat without damaging the walls. And the crevice instrumentality is utile for the spread betwixt my stove and antagonistic wherever crumbs accumulate from cooking.

The vacuum is ace compact and doesn't instrumentality up overmuch space. I've been storing it comfortably successful my already-packed linen closet, but it besides fits neatly successful the trunk of my car. It's lightweight, astatine 4.2 pounds, making it casual to question with too.