Yesterday we traded in our 2001 Hyundai Elantra for a new blue Prius. Very nice car, lots of goodies. A few things I’ve learned so far:
- Coasting generates the most power. Regenerative braking is a bit of a misnomer - as long as the car is moving and you’re not actively accelerating quickly, the car’s generating power.
- Handles about as well as any 4 wheel, 4 cylinder sedan. Fine for me, probably would irritate performance-minded street racers.
- Lots of little hidden spaces all over - extra trunk well, dual glove compartment and much more. Very nice for hiding things.
- The aux input is a standard headphone jack - podcasting in my car!
- Podcast producers - be sure if you put your shows on CD in MP3 format that you use ID3 tags - the onboard display reads ID3 tags and displays them on the console.
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John Wall
13|May|2007 1Aux in jack rocks.
Christopher S. Penn
14|May|2007 2It does - combined with a 12V iPod charger, it’s all iPod, all the time, though I may consider burning CDs for really long trips, since the steering wheel controls obviously cannot control the iPod.
Good design - the 12V jack and the AUX in are both next to each other in the driver’s armrest. No need to have cables all over the car - just tuck everything into the armrest, and you’ve got iPod audio.
julien
14|May|2007 3nice! if i drove a car, this would be it.
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