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Old 01-24-2005, 08:37 AM   #1
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Whereas I question, in this day and age, the wisdom of offering side airbags and stability control as mere options, it’s hard to know what to make of other interior features that come as standard equipment. It is, perhaps, a commentary on our times to note that a rear-seat DVD theater, with wireless headphones, is installed in every Relay minivan regardless of price.

Moreover, this DVD player is part of a clever powered-rail system that runs down the center of the cabin. Saturn purveys a variety of optional storage boxes, PDA or cellphone holsters and sunglass bins that clip in and out of these rails. But the masterpiece by far is the optional (and tongue-tying) “Mobile Digital Media Powered by PhatNoise” system that also docks into the rails.
For anybody over 25, a little tutorial is in order: Relay’s PhatNoise option is basically a 40-gigabyte hard drive library that networks into the minivan’s audio and DVD circuits. It’s capable of storing up to 10,000 songs in various digital formats or 40 MPEG movies. Many video games are also compatible, as are audio books transferred from a PC. The PhatNoise unit features “voice browsing” that identifies individual songs aurally by title and artist, which the driver can then select via steering wheel controls. Oh, and don’t forget the XM Satellite Radio option. Then, if that’s not enough, two different “entertainment sources” can be played simultaneously to pacify different media constituencies during road trips.
That's a pretty cool set up.
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