Satellite Radio
Feb 14, 2008, 4:27 pm
#16
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In January I had to drive to YUL in a hurry after my flight from YOW was cancelled. YOW was down to one car (yes only one - it was that or take greyhound) and I landed a Taurus SEL with 48000km on it.
Feb 14, 2008, 6:19 pm
#17
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That kind of figures why I never see XM radio on the car [I've seen onstar on a few though]. Ottawa often gets half their cars from YUL (and also YYZ), it's only been in the past few weeks that I have gotten YOW based cars. YUL tends to be full of junky cars.
In January I had to drive to YUL in a hurry after my flight from YOW was cancelled. YOW was down to one car (yes only one - it was that or take greyhound) and I landed a Taurus SEL with 48000km on it.
In January I had to drive to YUL in a hurry after my flight from YOW was cancelled. YOW was down to one car (yes only one - it was that or take greyhound) and I landed a Taurus SEL with 48000km on it.
Ouch! I don't like it when I get a car with more than 20000km!
Ron.
Apr 7, 2008, 12:55 am
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The week before at YUL/Montreal I asked for a car with satellite radio and was told they didn't have any. Mind you, YUL's fleet seems to be one of the worst.
Apr 10, 2008, 12:22 pm
#21
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In 2006 and most of 2007 I managed to get cars with XM most of the time. The last nine months or so they've been very difficult to find. I haven't had a single National car with fully activated XM since December. It seems GM dumped a bunch of base model 2007 G6s and Impalas without XM into the rental fleets last fall and ever since it's been harder to find cars with XM and features like leather seats at many US National locations.
Apr 10, 2008, 11:34 pm
#22
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I get XM about 75% of the time, but I do admit to (1) looking for the antenna and (2) starting the car to see if the XM is active -- if not, I try another car.
This is especially true during baseball season, since every MLB game is on XM.
This is especially true during baseball season, since every MLB game is on XM.
Apr 11, 2008, 10:36 am
#24
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1. Clean
2. Relatively low mileage
3. Properly representative of the size booked, even by 'rental land' standards
4. Attractively optioned
Looking for the roof antenna is an effective way of finding XM on a GM car.
Apr 11, 2008, 2:54 pm
#25
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Thats an understatement!
Whats more annoying is that the emerald isle always has the junk in it and the normal area the nice new stuff
Kicked off once about getting another chrysler as the seats tend to very uncomfortable and was given a brand new fusion which was in the main area. Whilst looking around i realised that the main area "seems" to have a much better array of cars. Or atleast newer.......
Whats more annoying is that the emerald isle always has the junk in it and the normal area the nice new stuff
Kicked off once about getting another chrysler as the seats tend to very uncomfortable and was given a brand new fusion which was in the main area. Whilst looking around i realised that the main area "seems" to have a much better array of cars. Or atleast newer.......