I am quite content with my 6 AM and 12 FM presets  in my boring beige 2006 Toyota Camry. It is still in excellent condition, gets me from point A to point B and probably isn't on any list of highly sought after stolen vehicles.

mace wrote:

I am quite content with my 6 AM and 12 FM presets  in my boring beige 2006 Toyota Camry. It is still in excellent condition, gets me from point A to point B and probably isn't on any list of highly sought after stolen vehicles.

I actually envy you. I absolutely hate, hate, hate the radio in my new car. It's horrendously difficult to use, forces you to take your eyes off the road to tune in anything and is nowhere near as easy as the old push button format the older cars had. 

Speaking of which, this article just happened to pop up at the same time as this thread. Glad to see I'm not the only one who feels this way. 

Why your car’s touch screen might kill you

I heard these record players existed but have never actually seen much less heard one. I bet they were hard on the records with tracking force and I bet they were expensive.

darcyh wrote:

I heard these record players existed but have never actually seen much less heard one. I bet they were hard on the records with tracking force and I bet they were expensive.

And I would assume the records probably got warped over time sitting in a hot car during the summertime.



PJ

 

The pics in this story show how ridiculous this has gotten. 

Seems like the only knobs left in the car radio industry are the people in charge of design. 

Bigger Screens and Even Fewer Knobs

YouTube has a video with one of these in action. Hard to believe they thought this would catch on, let alone work in traffic. With 45s, no less!