After being nonplussed at the Sedona's "PC LOAD LETTER"-esque nonsense with the CD player (I'm learning freakin' Spanish here! Vamonos!), I was, eh, plussed by the existence of a tape player.
No new cars have tape players anymore. As such, I had to buy a whole other Spanish program as my dad's "Living Language: Spanish" course on two cassettes was useless on the commute -- hence my recent adherence to the "Berlitz Rush Hour Spanish" complete with ridiculous songs about the asking for scrambled eggs with organ in F major.
But in the Sedona I could finally crack open the tapes and listen with ease...
Though I still don't know what anything means. Thankfully, beige is beige both north and south of the Rio Grande.
Mike Hudson, News Editor (8,100 miles)
tsgeisel says:
03:11 PM, 08/30/06
I'd love to have a tape player in my Elantra - not necessarily to listen to my old tapes (although that would be nice), but because the ipod cassette adapters work better than the FM transmitter things. And without a line-in, there aren't a whole lot of other options, short of a new stereo.
skierx420 says:
01:56 PM, 08/31/06
The standard Radio on the Chrysler LWB Town and Country and the Grand Caravan SXT is a CD AND CASSETTE PLAYER. So you can play your Spanish on tape the next time you get one of those to test drive. Also the upgraded unit on the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger/Magnum have CD and Cassette players as well.
vvk says:
12:05 PM, 09/11/06
Do a lot of people listen to books on tape? I very seldom listen to music in cars, instead preferring to make my commute bearable by listening to books. The lack of a tape player in modern cars, while understandable from pure money saving standpoint, is nevertheless very regrettable.