Hello Yannick!
On 08 Mar 98, Yannick Boucher wrote to Graeme Jaye:
 GJ>> radio/cassette units.  I mean, have you ever *tried* to buy a radio
 GJ>> only unit?  I have, and it's nigh on impossible!
 YB>      It's funny, because I have experienced the exact opposite! I tried
 YB>      to get cassette and I ended up with radio only! (2 times 
actually!!).
 YB>      But I wasn't the one buying the car so...  :)
On the showroom floor, sure... The automakers put radio-only units in mosr 
cars because they assume that the buyer will want a system personally 
tailored.  You can order anything, including AM/FM/Cass with CD changer, from 
the factory...
...and I found that a CD-only add-in from Toyota to fit the opening under my 
AM/FM was about $50 less than it cost me to refit the entire system with a 
JVC 12-disk changer and AM/FM/Cass (w/changer control and remote) and two 
extra speakers for the back... and I still have my little opening under the 
radio for an extra pack of smokes and gas reciepts.
Even the salesdrones will tell you that you're better off buying the car with 
a radio only and spending a few hundred on a system you like, rather than 
spending a few hundred on a factory system that isn't that good, or a 
thousand or more on a factory Bose system.
C-ya! Rich
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