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3. "RE: Achtung--Käfer!"
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   >>The Fender Edition doesn't have navigation (which, annoyingly, means
>>that head unit won't support a rearview camera), but it does have
>
>That is a big bummer. Rearview camera is possibly the single best
>feature I've seen in "economy" cars in the last several years. It
>makes things like backing up in cramped parking garages (a daily
>occurrence for me) less obnoxious.

I had one added to my CR-Z when I went to an aftermarket navigation head unit, and it is indeed mighty handy. The CR-Z, in particular, really needs it, because there isn't what you would call an actual view out of the back. (In fact, Honda became aware of this fairly soon after the model launched, which is why they've all come with one standard since the year after mine was made. Because of course.

That said, the normal rear viz out of the Beetle isn't terrible, and I survived many years of driving a Saab 900 convertible without backing into anything, so it wasn't a deal-breaker for me. I was hoping the unit might have an unused video input on it that would take a camera, but as it turns out, there are two different versions of the RDS 510, one that does and one that does not. Guess what model year they started putting the one that does in the Beetle. Go on, guess. Yes, of course it was 2014. :)

I might look into going aftermarket once the SiriusXM trial on the factory unit expires in October. Could do so before then, but I don't want to deal with the hassle of trying to swap the trial (which is part of the certified-preowned deal) onto a non-factory receiver.

Oh, yeah, that's a bit of the Civic odyssey that I forgot to mention. I half-jokingly proposed to my salesman, when the scale of the problem became obvious, that we should get an aftermarket unit for it and then make Honda eat the cost as a warranty repair, but then we realized that that wouldn't work because most of the controls for the new Civic's air conditioning are only present as software in the AV unit on the EX model. Which is why when someone over in the TIA board suggested that a redesigned KITT could just put all of those control buttons into touchscreen software, I stifled a bark of not-really-amused laughter. :)

Anyway, point is, I'd like to have one and maybe one of these days I will, but it's not the end of the world that it didn't come with one.

>"wait, hang on, you wanted
>to accelerate, lemme downshift and NOW, oh wait that gap closed up and
>you can't merge"

Heh. Similar to the phenomenon which writer and comedian Tim Sample once described, in a conversation with me and my father after a gig, as "telegraphing down to the engine room" on a Harley-Davidson.

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