Date: 10 Feb 1999 17:10:39 -0500 From: lparkernopsamy.edu (Lloyd R. Parker) Subject: Re: SAAB 9-5 or Charysler 300M ?
Duncan Elkins (delkinsnopsamedu) wrote: : : Lloyd R. Parker wrote in message <79qc97$scj$1nopsamy.cc.emory.edu>... : >Well, it doesn't have a "black switch"! Gee, talk about a worthless : >gimmick. And has Saab changed the appearance of their vents in 20 years? : : : A gimmick, maybe. Worthless, maybe not. While it's certainly a : non-essential, there have been times when I've found the Black Panel feature : to be useful. Always in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere : (a good deal of Georgia qualifies for this designation.) I wish the cruise : control indicator light was at least dimmed in the black setting, though. I remember reading the lights on the air vents and other things don't go black either. C/D summed it up in the current issue: "Does the driver of a 200-hp car really suffer from information overload the way an aircraft pilot does?" : : >Oh, and what advanced degree do you need to figure out their climate : >controls? Or the cryptic labels on the sound system? : : : The buttons for my quotidian climate control tasks are two: the up and down : arrows next to the temperature display. If, say, I need the defroster : longer than the computer expects, there is a button which shows the usual : defroster icon and pair that show a fan blade plus an up or down arrow. : When I'm done telling the system what to do, the AUTO button invites. : : My sound system has buttons cryptically labeled CD, Tape, and Radio, buttons : numbered from 1-6, icons for play, stop, FF, and REW. The WB button threw : me, until I hit it and got NOAA's weather band radio. Switching from FM1 to : FM2 to AM isn't the slickest, but Saab's rebranded Clarion equipment isn't : any different from an average Sony head-unit in that respect. Isn't there a button marked "A-B"? Seems I remember seeing such a one in their catalog.
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