Picked up new car

I picked up my new car today.

I wonder if that "new car" smell is real or comes from a bottle?

The good thing about a bright yellow car is that there aren't too many of them around. Looking at the other cars in the traffic, I realised that most were white or silver. This means that they all look similar in some way. I've already discovered one benefit - when I went to point out my new car to someone I worked with on the 6th floor - looking out the window, there was a single yellow car in the carpark below. I don't know how many times in the past I've stood in a carpark and wondered where I left my car; hopefully this will happen less now.

One disappointment has been the lack of an iPod dock. The salesman didn't even know what an iPod was. When I asked about an iPod dock, he pointed to an 3.5in audio socket and said "you can plug any MP3 player in there". I said that I wanted an iPod dock and he went off to ask the spare parts folks. He then said that I should go to a car radio shop and get them to install one because Honda don't have one. Oh well, I thought.

A few hours later I was reading the car radio part of the manual, and low and behold, you can get a USB socket installed to plug your iPod in. The radio even has an iPod mode that allows you to control the iPod from the steering wheel controls. It looks like this is standard on the next model up. Lousy salesmen !

No other gripes with the car so far. Fingers crossed.