bwayout

I have a friend at work who just bought a G35 coupe last december and his can be easily turned off and on.

I hope that it's the same in the RX-8!



I also went to test drive a Mazda 6 this last weekend and it was very very nice! I drove the 4 cylinder (I'm concerned about fuel economy ) I'm sure v6 has much better acceleration, which I know I would prefer, maybe I'll go back and try it later - but my only disappointment was that the sun visors seemed a little weak when compared to therest of the wonderful interier (which is as good as my wife's Passat)

eccles

FWIW, I drove a fully-loaded Mazda 6 for a couple of days last week, and found the Bose system pretty impressive. It had an automatic volume adjustment feature, but it was not called AudioTrack. It could be enabled at one of three levels, or disabled altogether.

It appeared to base its volume increments purely on vehicle speed - every time I hit 45mph there was a slight but distinct increase in the volume, and it dropped back down again when I slowed for the next light.

Not as sophisticated as a system that detects the interior sound levels, but by the sounds of it, one that is probably more reliable and useful than AudioTrack.

eccles

OK, according to the press kit, the Standard audio has the same speed-sensitive auto-levelling control as the Mazda 6 system I described above, while the Premium (Bose) system has AudioPilot.