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ON THOSE HOT SUMMER DAYS... IT CAN BE MISERABLE INSIDE A CAR THAT'S SAT IN THE SUN FOR AWHILE! WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE. FEELING LIKE OUR CLOTHES HAVE JUST BEEN IRONED, WITH US IN THEM! BUT NOW, THERE'S A UNIQUE NEW PRODUCT ON THE MARKET AIMED AT CHANGING THAT. FOX31'S KRISTAL GRIFFITH PUTS THE "INTVENT" TO THE FAME OR SHAME TEST. "H-E-A-T." IT'S A FOUR-LETTER WORD. NOT AN EXPLETIVE, BUT IT NO DOUBT PROMPTS A FEW. ESPECIALLY IN SUMMER. WHEN THOSE FOUR-LETTERS REPRESENT THREE-NUMBERS.

JARED MATKIN: "It's just hot here, plain and simple!"

HOTTEST OF ALL, PERHAPS, IN A PARKED CAR LEFT IN THE SUN.

JILL PERRY: "I have a big family and they're always complaining about their sweaty little bodies in the car and me, personally, I'm a nicer mommy when I'm cooler."

SO HOW DOES ONE KEEP TEMPERATURES FROM RISING?

BRET BRIMHALL: "It actually is a computer module that piggybacks on the blower motor fan of the air-conditioning."

BRET BRIMHALL SAYS THIS IS THE ANSWER! A PRODUCT CALLED "INTVENT". SHORT FOR "INTELLIGENT VENTILATION".

BRET BRIMHALL: "Once the interior temperature of the car gets up over a hundred-degrees, it activiates that unit and starts to bring fresh air into the car from the outside to push out the hotter air that's inside the car."

BRIMHALL IS NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTOR FOR "INTVENT". HE SAYS IT FIRST APPEARED IN ASIA FOUR-YEARS AGO.

BRET BRIMHALL: "They've sold over 40-thousand of these in that part of the world, through Malaysia and Taiwan and Singapore."

BRIMHALL SAYS "INTVENT" REDUCES A CAR'S INTERIOR TEMPERATURE BY AN AVERAGE OF 20-DEGREES.

JARED MATKIN: "I was very skeptical! It was just like, 'There is no way!'"

SO, WE PUT IT TO THE FAME OR SHAME TEST. TWO IDENTICAL TOYOTA SCIONS. ONE WITH "INTVENT". THE OTHER WITHOUT. WE LEFT THE CARS IN THE SUN FOR ABOUT AN HOUR. TEMPERATURES CLIMBED, ENOUGH TO SEE A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE. THE SCION WITHOUT INTVENT HIT 133-POINT-TWO DEGREES. THE ONE WITH IT 116-POINT-NINE. A DIFFERENCE OF 16-POINT-THREE DEGREES.

JILL PERRY: "I can get in the car and have it not feel like I'm getting into my oven just really appealed to me and not have my hands fused to the steering wheel!"