Ooh. I can play the preset game now.
FM1:
1- 101.7 WSFM
2- 95.3 Smooth FM
3- 97.3 ABC Illawarra
4- 92.9 ABC Classic FM
5- 99.9 SWR FM
FM2:
1- 107.7 2GO
2- 104.5 Star FM
3- 92.5 ABC Central Coast
4- 96.3 Coast FM
5- 98.1 ABC NewsRadio
AM:
1- 702 ABC Sydney
2- 630 ABC NewsRadio
3- 576 ABC Radio National
4- 1170 2CH
5- 1269 2SM
I read just this week that 65% of new cars sold in Australia in the last year have DAB+ as standard.
Pretty much every Mitsubishi except the Mirage. All Hyundai i30 and Kia Ceratos, even the Kia Rio (except the base model). Ford Focus, Mazda 3 have it. Corolla is a bit stingy and include only as an option.
VW Polo and Golf are notable exceptions with no DAB+
Lots to choose from these days. The only major brands really dragging the chain are VW and Suzuki.
I personally wouldn’t spend $2000 adding anything to an older Yaris. I’d get a whole new car (with DAB of course).
Probably the cheapest new car with DAB+ would be the Kia Rio but I believe you’ve got to go the mid spec model as it’s not in the base model. Still you’d get that on the road well under $20k
I don’t believe any volkswagen vehicles have dab in australia - my Tiguan is full of tech, except DAB
Yeah I wonder why VW are being such tight arses. VWs have DAB in the UK.
Subaru was a late adopter here but even they’ve cracked and have it in some of the latest models.
As I said it’s only VW and Suzuki here now that don’t include it. There might be one or two other minor brands but they’re the two main offenders out of the major brands.
I like the Hyundai i30 ,maybe that’s what I’ll end up buying when I’m able to access my superannuation account,so I’ll have to keep my Yaris for another 2-3 years😕Like the Mitsubishi ASX too but it’s too big a vehicle for just myself
Old school am radio, I am convinced the older cars had great sounding radios.
Did the outlander have apple car play, or Android play?
It has both.
It’s a very useful feature… I don’t think I could go back to not having Android Auto / Car Play.
Me 2. Even for me being a radio nerd, if someone said choose between Android Auto /Car play vs DAB I would choose the former.
So true ,my old 1998 Toyota Starlet had one of those retractable aerials on the drivers side next to the window and AM radio sounded heaps better,didn’t lose the signal driving under overpasses or overhead power lines.However that car was really old school,didn’t have power steering or CD player 
so I don’t miss it
We have a few of the new Camrys in our work vehicle fleet and dead set the AM radio quality is appalling - so low fidelity it sounds like you’re listening to a muffled noise through a wall, and gets all the electrical interference. Most of ours don’t have the DAB option either, so you pretty much end up on FM
The best car radio for AM sound I’ve ever heard was the one in my grandparents’ 1990 KF Ford Laser Ghia. It was the one that had the AM Filter which narrowed the bandwidth (useful at night when adjacent signals would hash up your listening experience), but during the day with the filter off produced a very high fidelity sound
This would be the one…
Surely these tuners aren’t also fitted to Land Cruisers which they know will be out in the bush and reliant on AM?
Eurovox radios towards the end of the 80’s and early 90’s had this too. Great feature and excellent with the AM stereo stations that powered on in the early 90’s in Toowoomba.
I had a great AM stereo Eurovox receiver that had 3 bandwidth settings so you didn’t have to totally sacrifice sound quality at night…
Back when they were really caring about AM.
Difficult to get manufacturers to think the same today.
The Eurovox still works when hooked up to DC power as seen below. There was also bandwidth selection available on FM but it had very little effect.
Exactly the one @Radiohead - and still going strong, believe it or not (both the Laser and the radio). The old speakers are a bit crackly now given they’re nearly 30 years old but the radio still works a treat
Worth noting that the wideband AM reception was a bit problematic when two signals were in close proximity though. For instance, where I was in Geelong it was very difficult to listen to 1116 from Melbourne in wide mode because 3CS on 1134 caused it trouble. Not so much a problem towards Melbourne where the former signal was stronger and the latter weaker, but when both were a fair signal at 18kHz spacing it had some issues
I use Car Play a lot. I have a group of favourites set in each app so there is a lot of choice and its easy to switch between stations in the groups and then to DAB or FM.
Those Lasers were great, particularly that model. I had the model before and it was excellent too.
