Cool! Make your friends give you free music everytime they take a ride with you in your new Infiniti G35!

Besides a 300-plus horsepower engine, paddle shifters, push-button ignition, touch-screen navigation and a rear-view monitor, the G35 will offer a high-end Bose audio system that integrates a digital audio converter (DAC) that lets users rip audio CDs and create digital audio files.

According to Infiniti, the unit uses a 24-bit DAC built by Burr Brown, which recently was acquired by Texas Instruments. There are few technical details available, but edmunds.com reports that the system also includes a "9.5G" hard drive, which serves as storage device for audio files.

It is unclear which hard drive the G35 actually uses but the vague information suggests that Seagate was finally able to push its EE25 2.5" hard drive series into the automotive segment, making the Infiniti the first car that is offered with a mass storage device.

AUTO SPIES PERSPECTIVE: Just think, you can tell your friends no rides unless they let you rip their cd's into your system for free!!!!

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AlexFX - 4/17/2006 3:14:40 PM

+1 Boost

I'm not sure exactly how Infiniti plans to keep the hard drive safe from vibration. That's a very good point, MN_Audi. I also like the idea so long as its executed well which I'm hoping it will be.

dblo7 - 4/18/2006 2:18:12 PM

+1 Boost

Autoweek has pics of new G35. Infiniti made a dumb move by making it look identical to the M.