James May notices something about the VW Golf GTI! 🚗

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mwoody450@reddit

And “child protective services” and “do not resuscitate” buttons, too. So convenient.

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beartheminus@reddit

I'm more concerned about the Toronto knob, as someone who lives in Toronto. I'm not sure if you want that maxed out.

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KamakaziDemiGod@reddit

That's the model of radio (Blapunkt Toronto SQR46), the knob is actually for how depressing you want the music to sound as denoted by the ): next to it

I'm confused by the knob next to it though, as its symbol appears to be a small rubber duck riding a unicycle

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coffeebribesaccepted@reddit

It's a bass and treble clef used in music notation, kind of funny to use them for the equalizer knobs

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KamakaziDemiGod@reddit

^(psst, I know, it was an attempt to be humourous!)

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Kichigai@reddit

Makes sense when you consider it's being sold in a market that speaks like 20 different languages.

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kanumark@reddit

Only if the clock reads 4:16…

ba-dum tish! 😂

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steve0suprem0@reddit

I'm gonna need this one broken down for me, please.

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kanumark@reddit

The area code that traditionally represents Toronto is (416) - if you have a 416 area code in your phone number… you’re an OG Toronto.

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steve0suprem0@reddit

Gotcha, thanks. Sorta like 705 and 775 in northern Nevada I guess.

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8Bit_Cat@reddit

Not sure what CPS stands for here but DNR stands for Dynamic Noise Reduction.

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Darthblaker7474@reddit

This being a UK spec car (probably) that’s actually for the Crown Prosecution Service.

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No_Atmosphere8146@reddit

Are we there yet are we there yet are we thr-

Hovers finger over the CPS button menacingly

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StagePuzzleheaded635@reddit

I was about to correct you on the Do Not Resuscitate, as it’s now Do Not Attempt Cardio Vascular Resuscitation, but I guess it would have been DNR at the time.

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kh250b1@reddit

Thats for metal tape type, not music genre (for the millennials)

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crc2993@reddit

Don’t accidentally hit one of the buttons next to it though. You’ll either have people take your kids away or they won’t resuscitate you if you get in a crash

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WonderfulCost864@reddit

That was a great brand for car stereos. I would expect no less from them. I owned metal tapes. Excellent sound quality back then

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therockster26@reddit

Have I made this up / misremembered but if you taped over something on a metal tape you could still faintly hear the original recording if there were any gaps on the second recording?

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hughk@reddit

If you had a recorder that could handle metal tapes, it was fine. You would get much cleaner higher frequencies.

Essentially it meant dualing up the erase and recording field strengths to 11 and using a special tone equalisation filter for both record and playback. The metal button would do this.

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Ryanliverpool96@reddit

Why would it make any difference the tape was magnetic tape, either the charge was positive 1 or negative 0?

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You're thinking digital, this was analogue, so infinite values between 1 and 0. And the tape chemistry had an influence on how the tape stored the data, iirc metal tapes had higher dynamic range because they could be magnetised harder or something.

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Top-Car-808@reddit

I dimly remember being 'magnetised harder' back in the 90s.

It was in the middle of the night, in a field in Hamshire.

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Moist_Barracuda_2014@reddit

Did you get the tickets from some fucked up bloke in Camden Town?

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Top-Car-808@reddit

I think I left an important part of my brain in that field.

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Ryanliverpool96@reddit

Oh wow, we had analogue music players in cars? I can’t even imagine that!

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Dick_in_owl@reddit

Christ almighty

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SophisticatedVagrant@reddit

Jesus, I feel old...

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roguespectre67@reddit

I have students right now that were not alive when we first heard of that strange new illness that seemed to be coming from Wuhan.

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gefahr@reddit

I think/hope they're trolling. If not someone show him an 8 track.

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Ryanliverpool96@reddit

I'm not, growing up our family cars always had screens, the first car I remember us having was my dad's BMW 5 series and every car ever since has had screens.

I did Google "8 track" images and it basically looks like a giant USB stick that stuck in the dash.

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Substantial__Unit@reddit

Wtf wait til you hear about radio

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aggressiveclassic90@reddit

Growing up?

Surely you're still in the middle of that?

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musical-miller@reddit

Jesus way to make me feel old, and I’m only 32.

I don’t think we had a car with a CD player until I was 11 or 12

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Quaiche@reddit

Well, yes….

Your hurting a lot of generations with your remark, haha.

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Lord_Waldemar@reddit

Analogue was the only way to listen to music for a long time. The best thing is you could/can get adaptors for car cassette players that connect to phones via 3.5mm or bluetooth so you can play music from your phone without permanent modification to the car.

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tiorzol@reddit

Man the sound quality on those 3.5 to tape extensions was so bad but it really felt like the future to me back then

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Educational-Score-17@reddit

Having a mk2 gti 8v this is pretty cool tbh

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Educational-Score-17@reddit

Added it as my pfp if anyone cared

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Fantastic-Option-260@reddit

“Code protected” reminds me of the insanity of that period when you were supposed to take the front of your radio off and put it in your pocket everytime you left your car to stop it being stolen!

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Content-Yogurt-4859@reddit

Pockets as an anti-theft device? Someone should tell all them people walking around central London, lost in the screens of a £1000 pocket computer.

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Fantastic-Option-260@reddit

It was more that the front end small bit would be seperate from the main bit of the stereo left in the car. Each was worthless on its own as they were coded to work together.

But you’re right, a significant risk was someone would steal, then throw away, the removable bit (and you’d be left with a useless stereo)… or more likely you lose it!

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Content-Yogurt-4859@reddit

I took a swing at a joke and missed, that's on me.

I just wanted to point out that keeping something in your pocket is safer than leaving it on display, something people getting their phones snatched out of their hands should bare in mind and make a point about how the it's basic the same crime finding a new venue, instead of smashing windows to steal and sell valuable electronics they just grab the valuable electronics out your hand.

Constantly focusing on the symptom means we haven't tackled what are probably the exact same drivers of this low level crime, we just get our knickers in a twist over phone crime. Next time I'll say nothing 😮‍💨

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Fantastic-Option-260@reddit

Ha! No problem I do that all the time 🙂

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Amayukki@reddit

A bangin' stereo for me tunes.

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ConsistencyWelder@reddit

So cool that they had a button to push just for one music genre.

/s

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