Rented a car for my recent business trip. The rental car agency didn’t have the compact I requested, so I got saddled with a minivan. It was a Dodge Grand Caravan, and was actually nicer than I expected. Even got impressive gas mileage (24 MPG).
I was on my way to north Jersey when I happened to push a mysterious “mode” button on the radio. It was Sirius satellite radio! I parked the tuner on the First Wave channel and rocked out as I drove.
I’m still trying to convince myself that the $12.99 monthly fee is worth it. I do know that satellite radio may be the best thing to happen to radio in a long, long while.
Kudos to Sirius. It is clever marketing to put your service in rental cars. You may have just picked up another customer!
I’ve been tempted by the deals XM has inked with Major League Baseball. For music or other stuff, there’s the net or my ipod, but real-time games would be very nice. Now if only their hardware didn’t cost so much.