Every Toyota and Hyundai sold in Australia manages to come with a factory headunit that can play MP3s why can't Honda even offer it as an option on any vehicle?

 

I agree. My search with three different Honda dealerships yielded no satisfactory answers. Improving on the inbuilt stereo equipment is diproportinately expensive. The car simply is not built to take any add-ons. Just adding the factory subwoofer comes at a cost of 800 to 1000 Swiss Francs (about 700 - 850 USD), and almost half of it is labor! Even mounting the tweeters comes down to about USD 70 in labor. It should have been easy to prefit the wirings in the factory, so one would just have to plug in the parts. After my initial enthusiasm for the Jazz, this was quite a slap. I still think it's a cool car, but I'm a bit less sure I'll buy it. I'll definitely look at alternatives bevore deciding.

 

Eorionven in their very expensive Nav/radio system they don't have MP3 capability!

 

I agree. Honda radios suck! They've always been far more expensive than the alternatives, with reduced usefulness to boot! My buddy negociated the upgraded OEM Honda am/fm cd player for his '05 civic 4-door, and found out to his uttmost dismay that it would not play more than half of his burned cd's! Truly retarded! He had to fight tooth and nail for a refund (the dealer's credit was only valid for two years?!) and was forced to have his contract redrawn. To bad we don't get the double-din design in the central stack that the Thai cars get. Then I'd insist on a credit and have something decent put in afterward instead.

 

From orion the netherlands.
Beside the mp3 trouble,I've got also a 1 and a half year old navigation cd with many
mistakes in the navigation part. So I've to do again something to complain.