And lo on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:14:45 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> scott wrote:
>
>> Best invention ever - I would never get a car that wasn't capable of  
>> playing MP3s now.  Most new cars have some option for getting MP3s in  
>> to it, either through the CD player, USB socket or memory card socket.   
>> Car designers realise that everyone has portable music players and MP3s  
>> now...
>
> Hmm, I must be living in a different world or something...

Ya think?

> In the world where I live, people buy second hard cards that are about  
> 20 years old. And even that is cripplingly expensive. When I was a kid,  
> my family went through old wrecks at a prodigious rate. Nobody in my  
> family has ever owned a "new" car. They're just too expensive.
>
> And then, about 4 years ago, I purchased the newest car that anybody I  
> know has ever had. It was 3 years old. It's so new, in fact, that it has  
> *metalic* paint.

To make it look all pretty.

> And electric windows.

Actually I don't like electric windows, the only advantage to them I see  
is when you're squashed up in a car you're not jammed up against the  
turning handle.

> And power steering.

Still amused my teeeny tiny car has power steering.

> And ABS. It  even has *air bags*.

Woah advanced stuff indeed :-P

> As far as music goes, most cars come with an AM radio. With mechanical  
> tuning buttons. (You know, "radio buttons"?) If you're lucky they have  
> FM as well.

Um as Scott points out I've never seen a car-radio without an FM button .

> And if it's a really expensive car, there might be a tape deck.

No if it's a normal car it'll have a CD player, though mine has a tape  
deck which doesn't bother me as I rarely play music when driving (except  
when trying to remember the name of an Enya song).

> My current car is unique in that it can play *CDs*. In fact, it has a  
> *six* disk changer in the boot. Advanced!

Meh takes up boot space.

-- 
Phil Cook

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