Archive for November 13, 2007

There's the overview of all the large pictures…now I've just got small stuff left to show.

There's a closeup of the center console with the stereo system and such. It's playing XM Radio at the moment, Iron Maiden happened to be on. The cable is connected to the Aux input jack and the other end is usually hooked in to my iPod.

It's a 6 CD changer that supports MP3 CDs as well. Another cool surprise is that it supports the display of CD Text on the few discs that have it, so it can display artist/song name information on CDs.

The circle looking things above the radio are the air vents in the closed position, which you probably already guessed but I needed some text to fill in the rest of this picture.

Here's the steering wheel and gauges and such. The top two buttons on the left hand side under the up and down toggle thing control the bluetooth phone system so I can make and pick up calls while driving. The next button down is volume control, and the next is source selection for the radio. The right hand side is the cruise control buttons.

The two paddles that are to the left and the right on the inside of the wheel are paddle shifters used when I want to put the car into manual transmission mode, useful for getting more acceleration if I'm forced to slow down/stop on a hill. I just hit one of those and it switches to either the next highest/lowest gear from the one that I'd be running in if I switched to Manual mode using the shift lever.

The orange circle thing is a drive computer and it displays my gas gauge, temperature readings as well as the odometer/trip odometer/mile to go until I run out of gas, how my gas mileage is doing, etc.  All the warning lights are on because I turned the ignition without turning on the engine…so never mind those

Now for the back end. Not much to say here except that I love the pop up storage organizer thingy that's shown in the top picture. There's compartments with nets between them so things don't move around. Great for carrying grocery bags around.

The storage space is pretty decently sized and a lot larger than it looks from the outside. I can easily carry laundry and stuff back there without any problems.

I also had taken a picture of the key, but it doesn't look like that made it up to Flickr so I won't be able to post that. which means I'll just throw out a random picture of the door handle showing the button that you can hit to unlock the door when the key is within about 3 feet of the door.

Still very happy with it. The only annoying thing is that I'm still searching around for a good place to stick my iPod.