Ok, I made a thread a while back about storing all your music on a hard drive in your car. I think I finally found one that is currently in production and affordable that fits in a 1 DIN opening. Actually there are 2 different models. The company says Best Buy is a retailer of their product, and you should be able to order through them. On my next trip to best buy I want to check this thing out, because I have stupid CD's all over my car. You can store ALL of your MP3's on these things. It supports nearly any 3.5'' hard drive all the way up to 300GB, but they come standard with a 40GB, which is plenty for anyone. It can also be ordered with no hard drive, which is perfect for me because I just happen to have a few 160GB drives laying around full of my backed up music already. The two products they advertise are supposed to be between $300 and $400. I say its worth the money just because of the hastle of burning new mp3 CD's and regular CD's all the time and having to eject/insert while driving. If anyone else is interested, I am going to Best Buy soon to check, probably this week, or if someone is going sooner, ask about this product. Thanks.

The DMP3 acts as a CD Changer, but its just an MP3 music keg..
The DH100ix is an actual head unit with removable 2.5'' laptop hard drive.


http://www.densionusa.com/dmp3_info.htm
http://www.densionusa.com/dh100ix_info.htm

 

looks really interesting.... I want something like this too.

 

Its nice cause all you have to do is have your main radio in the car set to the aux input, and just control all the music from the MP3 Hard Drive player. Plus it displays all the text of the song titles and stuff on it. You could use the lower DIN relocation kit for the Lancer to have it fit perfectly, then just slip out the hard drive to put the new songs on it.

 

I just checked and couldn't find anything like that on bestbuy's webpage.... hope you have better luck in going to the actual store

 

I think they might have to special order it. I'll check by the end of this week. Hopefully they aren't retarted like they usually are..

 

Well, I went to Best Buy, which actually carries their products such as the iPOD adapters, but they won't order me one of these units. Gheyyyyy. Then I went to ABC Warehouse and Circuit City, they don't have them either. I'll have to order this thing when they get more in stock on their website. Maybe someone else could check at their Best Buy to see if they would order it thru the store so you can purchase the warranty plan.. thats the main reason I wanted it thru the store. But maybe I can talk with the company to see if they can work something out with me.