Turns out that we did decide to get the 94 Honda Accord. It has 90,000 on the speedo (That’s in kilometers!). Plus it has a V-tech engine, and all kinds of weird gadgets that I don’t understand on the dash board. All of the buttons are written in western characters, but they are labeled with one letter, at most two (and never with a vowel). The owner’s manual is of course in Japanese....so no help there. However, the big upside is that is has a super cool sound system...best that I have ever had. Er, maybe that is not really saying much....lets just say that it is very cool. The problem with the sound system is that it has far to many control devices and gadgets for a normal person to use easily. In fact it took me 1 ½ weeks just to figure out how to change the radio station. The CD player still fools me from time to time....but I can get it to work. We didn’t spend very much on the car. When a car gets to be about 5 years old in Japan, it’s value goes way into the tank. Everyone is big on having the latest and the greatest here. If we are driving in town, then it is almost a sure bet that we have the oldest car on the road. Once I get my act together, I will get a few pics up.....
Posted by paul at October 2, 2004 10:14 PM