Free iPod with VW New Beetle
Volkswagen and Apple today announced a promotion where you get a free 10GB iPod and a "connectivity kit" if you buy a (non-convertible) 2003 New Beetle. The VWVortex website has the full press release.
Looks good to me! I wonder whether this "connectivity kit" is available separately. A well-integrated car solution is one of the elements that has been holding up my iPod purchase.
Escher
Looks good to me! I wonder whether this "connectivity kit" is available separately. A well-integrated car solution is one of the elements that has been holding up my iPod purchase.
Escher
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the iPod is really apple's little ace up their sleeve
It would be pretty cool if they gave out free iPods, or if VW put auxilary jacks in their cars.
Even the Apple Store UK has been dry for weeks (mine has been on order since with them since 12th June and they still quote 10 days delivery!).
I actually have three on order with different suppliers, one of which has been on back order since they started to run down supplies of the 20GB model, then converting the order to the 30GB model once it was announced.
They should have done this with the Mini Cooper. Same price. A lot more sexy and still hot! Beetles are so yesterday....8)
Originally posted by Hadrian
It would be nice if Apple concentrated on hitting stock levels of 30GB iPods in the UK to satisfy back orders before they give them away.
Even the Apple Store UK has been dry for weeks (mine has been on order since with them since 12th June and they still quote 10 days delivery!).
I actually have three on order with different suppliers, one of which has been on back order since they started to run down supplies of the 20GB model, then converting the order to the 30GB model once it was announced.
It's backordered everywhere (go from 80k a quarter to 300k a quarter, go figure). I know some people in the US who have been waiting for over a month and have a quote date sometime in late August/early September.
Originally posted by kcmac
Ehhhhh.
They should have done this with the Mini Cooper. Same price. A lot more sexy and still hot! Beetles are so yesterday....8)
Except in the Mini Cooper your doomed if you get hit and are a passenger in the back seat. At least the New Beetle has something in back (a trunk) to cusion the blow. Just wish it had all the options of the Mini Cooper.
Being both a Volkswagen and an Apple fan I would love to have one of these custom engraved VW iPods!
Originally posted by TWinbrook46636
Being both a Volkswagen and an Apple fan I would love to have one of these custom engraved VW iPods!
Let's hope Apple and VW make the custom "Drivers Wanted" iPod(s) and connection kit available separately, i.e. without New Beetle, at some point in the future.
BTW: Apple has posted a special Pods Unite website with the TV commercial and a detailed description (incl. Flash demo) of how it all works. It looks like it's just a cassette adapter. They really should have worked on a line-in solution, and I hope they will do so in the future.
Escher
My contact was very forthright in confirming this quoting the source at the distributor as having a shipment or consignment number from Apple as 'certain that it will happen', as these are only issued once shipment is underway.
Watch this space.....
I think I have seen the iPod stand for the car somewhere else, but cannot remember where.
The kit also contains the cables for home stereo's too. Man i love my ipod.
Originally posted by bka77
Would be great to get the connection kit.
I think I have seen the iPod stand for the car somewhere else, but cannot remember where.
Here's a similar one: http://www.welovemacs.com/001cm330.html
The Apple/VW one might be custom made.
Originally posted by Escher
Let's hope Apple and VW make the custom "Drivers Wanted" iPod(s) and connection kit available separately, i.e. without New Beetle, at some point in the future.
BTW: Apple has posted a special Pods Unite website with the TV commercial and a detailed description (incl. Flash demo) of how it all works. It looks like it's just a cassette adapter. They really should have worked on a line-in solution, and I hope they will do so in the future.
Escher
Yes this is a shame.
PS: Notice the warning Powerdoc
Originally posted by Escher
Let's hope Apple and VW make the custom "Drivers Wanted" iPod(s) and connection kit available separately, i.e. without New Beetle, at some point in the future.
Escher
I thought I "recognized" you over at VWVortex. Sadly, it doesn't look like they have any interest in selling the kit separately. Geez, all I want it the custom engraved iPod melding together two of my favorite companies. I'm willing to pay $600 for the kit in order to get it if anyone's interested though I suppose anyone reading these boards would be keeping it for themselves. Still, it is as free incentive so a quick way to make $600 bucks. Why do they have to make it so difficult for me? And what about all the current New Beetle owners?