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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
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You're just slightly out of date.
> 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. And electric windows. And power steering. And ABS. It
> even has *air bags*.
The car I have now has metallic paint, power steering, electric windows,
ABS. It's close on 11 years old.
It doesn't have airbags though.
> As far as music goes, most cars come with an AM radio. With mechanical
> tuning buttons. (You know, "radio buttons"?)
Haven't seen one of those for a couple of decades. Haven't seen a radio
without FM for even longer.
> If you're lucky they have
> FM as well. And if it's a really expensive car, there might be a tape
> deck. My current car is unique in that it can play *CDs*. In fact, it
> has a *six* disk changer in the boot. Advanced!
Unique? I bought my car (2nd hand) 6 years ago and it had a 6 CD changer in
the boot, FM radio, tape deck. The car I sold at that time had a 4 CD
changer under the driver's seat, tape deck, FM and AM radio and it had had
that for around 4 years.
Most cars don't have tape decks any more. Who sells tapes these days?
> Sure, I know there are absurdly rich people who can afford expensive
> shiny cars that have all sorts of electronic gizmos in them. But
> seriously, normal people don't have that kind of money...
Ever heard of a loan? Very few people buy cars outright. Most people take
loans from the bank and repay over 3-5 years. I paid off my car (R80 000) in
3 years. Think I was paying around R3500 - R4000 per month. (do the
conversions yourself.).
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On 6 Feb 2008 11:38:27 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:10:24 +0100, scott wrote:
>
>> 7.5 million new cars were sold in the US in 2004, so presumably some
>> people can afford them. A lot of people get given them by their
>> company, and a lot of other people just buy cars that are a few years
>> old (but not decades).
>
>Cars in the US are a fair bit cheaper than they are in the UK. Part of
>the reason for that is the additional cost of actually delivering the
>vehicles to the island - there's not a lot of space for manufacturing
>plants (though there are a few, of course).
>
There are a few manufactories on this sceptered isle, you know :)
We do make some cars and even export them.
Regards
Stephen
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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote in message
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> > (Benny's car stereo is somehow able to decode MPEG-1 layer-3 digital
audio
> > from yellow-book CDs. Yes, yellow-book, but red-book. As a result, 1 CD
> > plays for about 13 hours. And the trebble is sufficiently chewed up to
> > annoy me. Apparently the difference is inaudible to everyone else...)
>
> Best invention ever - I would never get a car that wasn't capable of
playing
> MP3s now.
I wish mine did. The music system's a bit too old. It does read CD
rewritables, so that's a plus.
I'd love to be able to plug my ipod/Zen into the car radio. There's probably
some way to do it.
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Stephen wrote:
> There are a few manufactories on this sceptered isle, you know :)
> We do make some cars and even export them.
Really?
It's news to me that *anything* is manufactured in the UK. I thought all
mass-produced goods were imported...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> In the back, for the kids, fine. However, I've recently been horrified
> to see that front-seat players, apparently aimed at drivers, are
> becoming common.
With the traffic situation here I'll take one of those happily. On Monday I
listened to an hour long podcast from start to finish during my drive from
work to the dojo. It's a distance of around 15km, 90% of that on the highway
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:54:34 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>
>> There are a few manufactories on this sceptered isle, you know :)
>> We do make some cars and even export them.
>
>Really?
>
>It's news to me that *anything* is manufactured in the UK. I thought all
>mass-produced goods were imported...
You have too "down" a view of the world. You need to get away from the Home
Counties to get your hands dirty. :)
Regards
Stephen
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:51:26 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>Cars in the US are a fair bit cheaper than they are in the UK. Part of
>>the reason for that is the additional cost of actually delivering the
>>vehicles to the island - there's not a lot of space for manufacturing
>>plants (though there are a few, of course).
>>
> There are a few manufactories on this sceptered isle, you know We do
> make some cars and even export them.
Oh, yes, I know (miss the paranthetical?). But I also know that a lot of
the materials still have to be imported, which adds to the cost -
especially with the increase in oil/gas prices. And that said, petrol
isn't exactly cheap over there.
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:53:12 +0200, Gail Shaw wrote:
> I wish mine did. The music system's a bit too old. It does read CD
> rewritables, so that's a plus.
> I'd love to be able to plug my ipod/Zen into the car radio. There's
> probably some way to do it.
The only thing I don't like about my Saturn is that the connector on the
back of the radio is a nonstandard connector, and Saturn can't even tell
me how to hard-wire my iPod to it. So I use an RF transmitter instead,
and that generally works well.
Jim
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> Cars in the US are a fair bit cheaper than they are in the UK. Part of
> the reason for that is the additional cost of actually delivering the
> vehicles to the island - there's not a lot of space for manufacturing
> plants (though there are a few, of course).
We don't really drive cars that are actually made in the USA in Europe :-)
Most cars sold here are either built in Europe from a European make (mostly
French or German) or built in Europe from a Japanese make.
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> Oh, yes, I know (miss the paranthetical?). But I also know that a lot of
> the materials still have to be imported, which adds to the cost -
I'm currently working on a radio system for Ford, where most of the core
components are made in Japan, assembled in either China or Taiwan, then
moved to Mexico to assemble into the complete radio unit, then moved to some
Chrysler plant somewhere to be assembled into the car. Madness isn't it?
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