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IIRC Ford are now opening up iDevice app development to the wider public - the best way to do this IMO is to provide the car as a blank canvas. Problem i have with most moderns is the damned radios are customised into the fascia so aftermarket needs to wait until someone makes a nasty dashboard adapter.
What you really want is decent speakers, an amp and a bluetooth functionality / USB dock so that you can connect a mini tablet or some such other device and make the cars roof into a 3G/4G aerial.
Given the power in something like the Nexus 4 - that's where all the clever electrickery needs to stay then it's always up to date.
What you really want is decent speakers, an amp and a bluetooth functionality / USB dock so that you can connect a mini tablet or some such other device and make the cars roof into a 3G/4G aerial.
Given the power in something like the Nexus 4 - that's where all the clever electrickery needs to stay then it's always up to date.
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From: Plymouth
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From: Plymouth
That was sort of meant to be the idea with the Hachiroku originally, to save weight & cost. But the trouble is, the motor industry moves so slowly in relation to the phone one, the thing's redundant by the time it enters production. Hence they're only just moving to DAB units as standard, when analogue was meant to have been phased out by now.
Like everything aftermarket is suddenly twatpodphone compatible, just as Android-based systems start to race ahead.
Like everything aftermarket is suddenly twatpodphone compatible, just as Android-based systems start to race ahead.
Its amazing as a fleet machine, but the £2k premium for a diseasal is abit rich these days.
So clean, cheap, frugal. Almost perfect really. Except the integrated (really?) Nav is crap and no DAB.
Twats.
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From: Nottingham
It seems incredible to me that something which commands a premium of a few pounds for an OEM (i imagine) is not there when we're talking about switching off analogue.
Crazy days
I pondered a 3 MPS.. Sleepy turbo and not as chav as focci IMO
Crazy days
I pondered a 3 MPS.. Sleepy turbo and not as chav as focci IMO
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From: Chester
Originally Posted by fluffyninja' timestamp='1364926653' post='22446167
Nope, wrong plant 
Back in north Wales. It's on Deeside industrial estate.
Back in north Wales. It's on Deeside industrial estate.
I'm often at our place - Units 64 & 65 Third Avenue.
Coffee at the Garage sometime then matey?
Or I can give you a mini tour of our secret shed
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From: location, location
I was fancying an mps 3 too, quite understated and meant to he rather good and under rated. You can get them for around 6k now
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From: Hertford
I think it's cynically hoping for "the ashtrays are full" syndrome; Mr Muppet will chop it in 'coz the radio don't work no more.
