{"id":876,"date":"2011-04-18T08:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=876"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:56:31","slug":"all-the-bells-and-whistles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/all-the-bells-and-whistles\/","title":{"rendered":"All the bells and whistles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids love to send the electric windows down at any time of the day.\u00a0 \u201cHelicopter wobbing\u201d \u2013 as we call it \u2013 is the loud vibrations in the air waves from windows that have been sent down while travelling at highway speeds.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing more irritating!\u00a0 Well, almost.\u00a0 A high-pitched scream from the aftermath of a squabble in the back seat features right up the list of most unwanted noises on a long car trip.\u00a0 Hey, I love our kids.\u00a0 And I enjoy the electric windows \u2013 especially the one-touch switches that go all the way up after one flick of the switch.\u00a0 The anti-pinch function with electric windows is also something I love, having had my finger squeezed in electric windows without this safety feature \u2013 the experience lets you know what that medieval torture device known as the thumbscrew felt like.\u00a0 Electronic luxuries, even the luxuries that are not linked to electronics, can be a car owner\u2019s delight \u2013 delights that will make the car trip a pleasure, delights that set the standard, and delights that you can show off to all your mates.\u00a0 What are the bells and whistles that you could never do without? <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute; top:1729px; left:-1112px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luftsport.de\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyeleven\/college-paper-writing.html\" title=\"research paper format\">research paper format<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The days of the horse and carriage are over \u2013 at least for now.\u00a0 Though I reckon you still could combine high-tech carriages with solar power and horses easily enough, and market them as being the most fuel-efficient, least harmful to the environment vehicles in the world.\u00a0 But even the horse and carriage of the nineteenth century had the finest luxury materials of the day.\u00a0 The leather on some of the premium carriages was so beautifully crafted that it has a charm and warmth completely missing from most of today\u2019s high-end car interior upholsteries &#8211; though Jaguars of the 1980s and 1990s could match them.\u00a0 That was what made the Jaguar of this era so charming.\u00a0 The warmth of the interior welcomed you with soft sumptuous leather seats.\u00a0 You could forgive the Jag\u2019s appalling reliability, and revel in the car\u2019s awesome luxury.\u00a0 Leather seats rate highly on my list of luxury features you just can\u2019t do without.<\/p>\n<p>Premium sounds get the big tick on my list, as well.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing like cruising the motorway with crystal clear sounds.\u00a0 A good audio system is a must in my cars. And steering-wheel mounted audio controls are up there: though I can live without them, I\u2019d prefer to have them.<\/p>\n<p>You just gotta have air-con, too!\u00a0 Especially in Australia, where the heat of the summer sun can blister paint or fry an egg.\u00a0 Most flagship models for Mercedes Benz, Jaguar, BMW, HSV and Lexus have zoned climate control, where one occupant on one side of the back seat can have a different temperature and climate to the occupant sitting on the other side of the back seat.\u00a0 Not bad, eh?\u00a0 This is the sort of luxury item I like \u2013 though for some, what\u2019s wrong with the manual wind-down windows?<\/p>\n<p>Heated seats, televisions, seat massagers and GPS are gadgets that are starting to get over the top \u2013 don\u2019t you reckon?\u00a0 These are the sort of \u2018Bells and Whistles\u2019 that only the snobs have, right?\u00a0 And what about parking sensors\u2026 this luxury feature just proves how badly you handle a vehicle in a shopping mall car park.\u00a0 I mean, surely, what sort of real man is going to brag about his parking sensors!\u00a0 Though I do have a weakness for heated seats\u2026<\/p>\n<p>One of the high-tech \u2018way cool\u2019 features that my dream car wouldn\u2019t be without is the system that can change a flat tyre on the move.\u00a0 Forget the silly-sounding talking GPS unit or the automatic light- up sun visors for touching up lipgloss (do it at home, girls \u2013 much easier). Wouldn\u2019t you rather be with a car that can change its own tyre, have the latest high-tech airbag for your knees and keep your morning coffee hot in the temperature-sensing driver\u2019s cup holder?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/ipoteka.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/ipoteka.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids love to send the electric windows down at any time of the day.\u00a0 \u201cHelicopter wobbing\u201d \u2013 as we call it \u2013 is the loud vibrations in the air waves from windows that have been sent down while travelling at highway speeds.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing more irritating!\u00a0 Well, almost.\u00a0 A high-pitched scream from the aftermath of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12481,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/12481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}