Ritha Khemani Washington, Feb. 21 To the Editor: What, exactly, is wrong with an airline charging for optional goodies?
The PN-V601 comes with a full-array LED backlight, a zoom function, and a number of optional goodies for the LCD used in the system, for example LAN access or video inputs (HDMI is standard).
Other goodies include optional traffic information via MSN, microSD expansion slot, MP3 player and photo viewer, and direct address transfer from Google Maps through the GPS unit's USB port.
In fact, the base car we drove, with only optional tan bird's-eye maple trim and no other goodies, was pretty darned sweet inside.
We like this car, and we know that the $18,250 ZTW package (which adds the spunkier 130-hp motor rather than the 115-hp stock engine, optional manual shift, 16-inch wheels and fog lamps, among other goodies) is an improvement, but it's not strong enough to overcome the more potent $20,350 Jetta GLS 1.8L with a 180 horses.
Another goody on the new 6 will be the optional six-speed Sequential Manual Gearbox, which uses paddles on the wheel rather than a conventional gearbox for shifting.
"It had all the performance goodies — twin-cam, 16 valves, rear-wheel drive with an optional limited-slip differential," he said.
Other goodies include 55-series tires on 17-inch wheels and an optional, $425 sport suspension package, which includes stickier tires, and sport-tuned springs and shocks.
This is optional to taste, but there are many varieties of temaki that include vegetables and goodies, such as avocado, cucumber, egg, tofu, taikuan (picked radish), etc.
It had goodies like a four-overhead-cam, 250-horsepower V-8 in a small, four-liter package as well as optional air suspension.
