Hi everyone!
I have noticed that over the last few years, the new Volkswagen cars,
especially the New Beetle and the Golf, have become very fashionable amongst
the young well-to-do in Europe and Australia. The New Beetle would also be
considered fashionable in North America as well.
In a lot of these situations, the young people would either be buying the
cars through the company that they own; or leasing it (perhaps for tax
advantage and the ability to upgrade the vehicle when the lease terminates).
In these situations, it may be desireable not to mess around with the sound
system; and also the owner may not want to put in a new MD head unit because
of security reasons or that it may look out of place in the VW's
blue-illuminated dashboard. In the case of the New Beetle, there is a
distinctive styling setup where the edges of the audio system are round,
rather than square.
In Australia, I have noticed that most of the current VW lineup, including
the New Beetle, are equipped with single-CD head units that can work with a
very costly dealer-installed optional six-stack CD changer. With these
units, the CD stacker is accessed by one pressing a button labelled CD-C.
Cassette-based head units aren't even offered as a "downgrade"; confined to
the Transporter vans; or available only in less-desireable packages where
you lose all the other desireable options.
>From the tone of the list, I have heard many negative comments about vehicle
builders like VW making it hard for us to hook up portable MD and MP3
players to newer factory-supplied car-audio setups. As I said before, this
has caused fellow listmembers to downgrade to vehicle packages that don't
match what they really want or stay away from certain desireable vehicles
when the time comes around to change vehicles; just so they can have a
cassette player to use with their cassette adaptor or a sound system that
has a front-panel CD-IN socket.
Does anyone know if there are any devices that allow an MD changer or MD
Walkman to be hooked in to newer VW sound systems?
With regards,
Simon Mackay
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