Got me a Coupe
I now have my Fiat Coupe and it’s bleedin’ fabulous. There should be a picture forthcoming (got my dad to take one of me in it :)) but until then you’ll just have to believe me on how cool it looks. And it’s, um, shall we say rather good in terms of acceleration, too. Blimey. I love the bit when the turbo kicks in. Yum.
The seat-belt-not-on warning light is a bit iffy, in that sometimes it lies and says I’ve got it on when I haven’t. Jon at work suggested I should take the battery out!
Oh, and CD players in cars are rubbish compared to my MP3 player, which I have not yet been able to transfer. They don’t tell you what’s playing, and they take ages to switch between CDs. Despite my MP3 player being a pain in the arse in myriad ways all by itself, I didn’t realise how attached I’d got to the damned thing until it was (temporarily) gone.
Being able to out-accelerate pretty much anything on the road is going a long way toward making up for it, though!
I’m just about to start driving lessons (yes, a bit late I know) and have as a result started paying more and more attention to the appearance of cars, the performance of cars and the interior of cars.
Now I love my iPod to bits (well, not literally) but I find it astounding that no third party car accessory maker has yet created an iPod dock for a car.
Imagine: a car stereo unit housing with the traditional display, buttons and all, but instead of a tape or CD slot there is a recessed area to dock your ipod. Instant access to however many thousand songs you have onboard, with easy control via the dashboard or steering-column controls.
So who’s going to go and make one in time for my first car purchase?
5 hours later
I have an iTrip FM Transmitter for my car. It blatently owns all. 40 gig of mp3 to choose from! The only other thing I need is an in car charger, as the ipod battery isn’t the best. As it’s an FM station I can control the volume via my steering wheel controls. Changing albums may be an issue, but I just do it at traffic lights :)
23 hours later