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The 2020 Sales Pitch:

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Scooter Lesley

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The year is 2020, and...

Let's say that you are 26, and you pull down around 140 a year.

Due to the amout of travel, both work & play, it behoooooooves you to purchase the "Road Car".

The guy in the ugly jacket, and the white belt explains it all in an attempt to sell you.

When he gets around to the in-dash Radio......

.....and this unit will_______________________________________________.
 
TheBigA said:
Car salesmen sell cars, not radios.
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Have you been car shopping lately? When I purchased the delightful little buggy I now own, I went out with my consumer part of the role playing: "I only buy a new car or new computer once every ten years. Tell me what I should buy, and why?"

I recognized that if I stay on my buying methodology, this might be the LAST new car I ever buy and I wanted to get it right. I was looking for a modestly upscale car. Everywhere I went, there was only one response from the sales people. They maneuvered me into the driver's seat and they took the front passenger seat, and couldn't get most of them to get past the radio and the GPS and the stereo speakers. They didn't want to discuss transmissions or engines or other issues. The ONLY thing they wanted to talk about and demo was the 'Radio Stack'.

I had one announced criteria that was a must. Ms. Cowboy has back pain issues. At the top of my pass/fail list was an adjustable power-operated front passenger seat. It was like pulling nails to get a sales rep to address that issue. (An amazing number of cars do NOT offer adjustments on the passenger side equal to the available adjustments on the drivers side.)

We are in the era where that vertical stack in the center of the dash is the center of the universe in the mind of car salesman. But you are correct: They do NOT SELL RADIOS! They sell SirrusXM, they sell hard drives where you can store enough music for three lifetimes, they sell navigation systems that are voice operated and they sell CD players, and they sell jacks where you can plug in your own mp3 player or your smartphone or your tablet.

But they no longer sell cars.
 
......20 Preset Buttons...

Well,....you'd think by then, it would have a secret trap door for your condoms,
....hopefully, sex is still around. No Beer tap, but the in-dash unit, in my mind, will be an Internet Radio,...with at least 20-preset buttons,....set for your favorite Webcasts.

If you here a commercial, at all, it will be your falt that the damn thing slid through.

As to what the exterior receiving gizmo looks like....it be a top-mount, adhered to the paint job,....if there's still paint! ....or it might be so self-contained that you don't see it at all.

As for pre-records.....Hmmmm? If we still have any toteable media,...I can only assume....keychain flashdrives.....or a button that links you directly to the music playlists on your own Batcave Desktop.....from anywhere....on the road.

That is....if we still have Roads???????????
 
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