Buy A Car For Your iPod
Posted by iPod Dewd | Under iPod NewsThe days of CDs scattered all over the floor of your car are over. If you get the new B-Class Mercedes, it comes equipped just for your iPod. Tony Whitney of the CanWest News Service recently took a tour and here’s what he had to say.
The B-Class is what Mercedes calls a sports tourer and will be the German automaker’s entry-level automobile. It’s a surprisingly roomy four-door hatchback and promises to appeal to a new group of younger buyers not previously Mercedes customers – hence the iPod interface.
The Mercedes iPod interface is located in the glove box – you simply plug your iPod into it. It will charge up the iPod batteries, even while music is being played. It creates what Mercedes calls “a veritable audio archive on wheels” and that’s quite a good way of putting it. I don’t know how much space you’d need to stow CDs carrying 15,000 songs, but it’d probably be considerable.
Once the iPod is plugged into the car, it’s automatically linked to the audio system and the driver navigates around the iPod menu (it’s normally shown on a screen on the device itself) using buttons on the standard-fit multifunction steering wheel. The central display on the dashboard, between the major instrument dials, provides the driver with all relevant menu and music track information – song title, artist and play mode. Songs can be skipped or repeated and volume also is operated from the steering wheel. Incidentally, hooking up the iPod does not cut out the existing CD changer because it is connected separately to the audio system.
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