[PeteSpencer]

My CD multichanger (yeah, really) is pretty cool.

However I do lament the inability to play media via bluetooth from my iPhone or from a digital gizmo stick via USB:

Yeh, I know, I know, I can 'talk the talk'

[Propwash]

However I do lament the inability to play media via bluetooth from my iPhone or from a digital gizmo stick via USB:

My car doesn't have bluetooth but it does have a small round aux input socket into which I plug a small bluetooth receiver and can then play music from the iPhone. It only cost pennies on Amazon. Can't you do that?

PW

[Paul_Sengupta]

Depends if it has an aux input.

My XF has a weird feature where you can copy CDs into internal memory. It's still got a CD loaded in there which was done by the first owner before my dad bought the car.

[PeteSpencer]

However I do lament the inability to play media via bluetooth from my iPhone or from a digital gizmo stick via USB:

My car doesn't have bluetooth but it does have a small round aux input socket into which I plug a small bluetooth receiver and can then play music from the iPhone. It only cost pennies on Amazon. Can't you do that?

PW

Yep I've searched and there isn't one. I s'pose I could get one put in by a local car/audio outfit...

Worth investigating : I have music on all the time : My 3Litre V6 petrol is virtually inaudible anyway so no throaty roaring for me to get off on.

Even my wife's elderly Golf has an aux-in socket.
Which she never uses...

[Propwash]

Even my wife's elderly Golf has an aux-in socket.
Which she never uses...

So nick hers.

Car audio systems are the one thing that I would have thought would be the first thing manufacturers standardised, but they often seem to be the last thing they consider and every car seems to be different. On a long journey to visit family I prefer using my own music (hence the blue tooth adapter) because stations on the radio often play repetitive playlists.

Different if there is a test match on radio, but otherwise it is rarely used.

PW

[Flyingfemme]

I never turn the radio on. Why would I? The soundtrack is so much better without.

Rob P

The Ferrari has a narrow rear window that drops down so you can listen to the roar of the mighty V8 all the better

[Rob P]

Luxury!

In my progress from 3-cylinder inline to V8 I have only missed out the 5-cylinder

V12 is yet to happen and I fear it may never

Rob P

[kanga]

..

In my progress from 3-cylinder inline to V8 I have only missed out the 5-cylinder

..

I expect I'm not alone in having started on 1-cyl 49cc

In Canada in '60s, a 'straight 6' (like the Chevy Biscayne I bought very cheaply) was a 'compact', anything with a mere '4' was a 'sub-compact' (and almost certainly an import). 'Standard' was a V8. ..

Just checked: the RR B60 in the Ferret, 4,256 cc 129bhp, was also a mere 'straight 6', but an impressive performer forward or backward

[Paul_Sengupta]

We've (as a family) done 5 cylinder with an Audi 100 GL 5E and then a couple of Audi 200 Turbos.

V12 is yet to happen and I fear it may never

Time to swap the Jag for a DB9?

[Flyingfemme]

Luxury!

In my progress from 3-cylinder inline to V8 I have only missed out the 5-cylinder

V12 is yet to happen and I fear it may never

Rob P

Never had a 5.......all my triples have been the two wheeled variety.

V12 - aaaaaaah! My SL600 was a magic carpet; almost silent and wafted along. The CofG was a little too far forward Sadly all the parts were unique to the 600 and almost unobtanium. When it got too old, it had to go. It did make a wonderful pickup - lash the load to the popup rollbar and off you go.

[Rob P]

I have had single, twin and 4-cylinder bikes.

The triple was a car, but at least it was a Suzuki

Rob P

[Colonel Panic]

Single: various mopeds & a quad bike
Twin: Haflinger
Triple: Massey Ferguson 135
Four: Too many to mention
Five: None
Six: Mercedes
Seven: None
Eight: TVR
Twelve: Piper Aztec

[Rob P]

If we wanted to get really anal we could split inline, flat and V sixes

I have had them all

Rob P

[Flyingfemme]

If we wanted to get really anal we could split inline, flat and V sixes

I have had them all

Rob P

As one should - there is a difference between a "gentleman's conveyance" and a hooligan (and a Lycoming !

[kanga]

..- there is a difference between a "gentleman's conveyance" and a hooligan (and a Lycoming !

.. and, analogously, a P&W or Alvis radial

[and I have ridden in a friend's Mazda with a Wankel rotary]