SE_Sport_Driver: FM radio blows. I don't miss it at all. I wouldn't install a tuner if it was free.

Well, I can't say I disagree with your assessment WRT FM. Isn't there *one* underpowered, underfunded college station in Detroit, though, that makes you want a tuner???

I should keep your more positive assessment of XM in mind and not be such a grump. I briefly had DMX with my cable about 7 years ago and it was nice to have. Even with repeats, I was exposed to some new stuff, and it was great to be able to retrieve artist/title info off the remote.

I guess I'm a prisoner of nostalgia. One of the great things about driving cross-country *used* to be twirling the dial to tune in local oddities. Not many of them left. I don't think it's just the U.S. I've driven across France a few times in the past decade and it seems like more and more spots on the dial are consumed by conglomerate programming like "Energie!"