{"id":7851,"date":"2005-11-28T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/28\/whee-9\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:47","slug":"whee-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/28\/whee-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Whee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2956-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2956-scaled.jpg\" border=0 height=480 width=640><\/a><br \/>Click for more&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is a bit of bragging: I finally got the new car today. And, thus far, I rather like it. The in-dash navigation system \/ audio \/ whatever thing is quite nice to use. I don&#8217;t understand all the voice commands yet, but it seems good thus far. I just need to finish reading the manuals.<\/p>\n<p>It is raining tonight so I was only able to grab a few photos in the garage (along with a few of the documentation for archival purposes). All of those are available here <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I think they are all decent to glance at, but some of the better ones are here:<br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2961-scaled.jpg\">2006 Civic EX Engine Compartment.<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2965-scaled.jpg\">2006 Civic EX w\/ Nav Dashboard as seen from the back seat.<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2962-scaled.jpg\">The wiper blades are really long and move in an interesting pattern.<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2967-scaled.jpg\">The speedometer sits a long ways back from the rest of the instrument cluster.<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2973-scaled.jpg\">30 \/ 40 MPG!<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2975-scaled.jpg\">The Honda Navigation System comes with DVDs for both Canada and the US.<\/a><br \/>\n&middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2969-scaled.jpg\">My iPod is already kinda connected.<\/a> (There is a stuff holder space in the front of the dash which almost perfectly holds <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSCN2954-scaled.jpg\">the iPod adapter I made<\/a> and is located directly below the power and aux in connectors.)<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. This seems pretty nifty thus far. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for more&#8230; Yes, this is a bit of bragging: I finally got the new car today. And, thus far, I rather like it. The in-dash navigation system \/ audio \/ whatever thing is quite nice to use. I don&#8217;t understand all the voice commands yet, but it seems good thus far. I just need\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-automotive","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13778,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions\/13778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}