Italy car rentals/CD Players?
 

Has anyone rented a car in Italy (or more specifically Sicily) with a CD player in the car? The rental agency says the car comes with radio/cassette, but I'm wondering if Italian rentals may have moved to CD players like most US rental cars?<BR>I'd love to be able to bring some music with me, but I have nothing on cassette anymore.

The car I rented at Florence last October did not have a CD player.<BR><BR>Have a great trip!

Thanks.<BR><BR>Anyone else?

I have not seen it--I always take tapes

Hi Kristina. The Fiat we rented in Siena -- through AutoEurope/Europcar -- last April did not have a CD player. But you could always do like we did, bring a small portable CD player with a cassette &quot;adapter.&quot; You put the adapter -- shaped just like an ordinary cassette -- into the cassette slot and can play CDs through the car unit that way.

WE had a BMW in Italy last year (which was a blast!!) but tape only...

P.S. Here's what I was talking about: a photo of the cassette adapter for a portable CD player. <BR><BR>http://www.surprise.com/electronics/accessories_and_supplies/<BR>Sony_Cassette_Adapter_For_Portable_CD_Player_C PA9C.cfm

If you will be in Sicily with the rental and a CD player, you should listen to good Sicilian music: Vincenzo Bellini!

It depends. Rental car I hired in 2001 came only with radio cassette. In 2002 it was fitted with CD player.<BR>Generally, with European-spec cars, CD player is an optional extra unless you get highest-spec model in the line-up. As most rental car fleet have lower or medium-spec models, you shouldn't expect CD to be standard fitting.<BR>CD-adaptor works well.

Thanks. I'll consider bringing a CD adapter.<BR>I'm not familiar with Vincenzo Bellini....<BR>

One of the greatest opera composers of all times, who composed numerous famous arias of exceptional melodic beauty.