No more earpieces, no more fiddling with the clickwheel as you drive, no more fumbling on the floor to search for your wayward player: Toyota has come up with an integration system that links Apple’s iPod directly to your car’s audio system. The iPod Integration Kit, available now, provides a simple and discreet connection in the glovebox. Simply plug in the iPod and a direct link is formed between the player and the audio system, letting you select and play tracks using the controls on the audio head unit or (where fitted) the controls on the steering wheel. Functions such as random play, scan, fast-forward, rewind and song or playlist repeat are all made possible.
On systems with CD text read-out, the playlist and selected track titles are shown, while on all units, the play list, track number and elapsed time are displayed. And there’s no risk of the music being cut short by a failing battery, as the adapter will charge up the iPod if the level runs low.
The unit is simple to install and has been developed with approval from Apple, earning it the Made for iPod certification of quality. Its location in the glovebox also keeps your iPod out of sight from prying eyes.
The iPod Integration Kit is compatible with all current generation iPod models that have an Apple dock connector. It will also work with many earlier generation versions, although in a few cases some functions may not be accessible. It can be used in any current Toyota or Lexus model, apart from Aygo. It is not currently available for LCVs.
The cost is £150, including owner’s manual and VAT, but not including fitting (approximately one hour).
Source: http://www.toyota.com/
does this include the US?
Sweet, no more dropping my iPod while driving!
first?
Good on Ya Cobber!!!
But not available in the US (at least according to their website).
Now would our British cousins please feel superior for once, and stop whinging about what Apple goodies you don’t have.
Thank you.
but will this work for my 91 Camry w/ aftermarket system?
@qka
I always feel superior!
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I live in New York and received this yesterday via FedEx. (see http://boydgroupsolutions.com/2007/08/31/i-love-my-iphone/ for my blog entry and link to product).
It took me about 45 minutes to install it myself in my 2007 Toyota Highlander Hybrid – and IT IS AWESOME.
Yes, it supports iPhone! Your iPhone playlists display on the factory navigation screen!
Sorry, got excited there.
Brian
Still not what I’m looking for. I really wish that these car manufacturers would build a system where there’s essentially an iPod dock built into the front of the radio, along with a CD player. Pop your iPod in when you get in the car, take it with you or stow it when you get out. It’d be so simple.
ndelc: True, no dock. I rest my phone or iPod on the seat next to me. I need to find a dock now.
BB
I have a 2006 Camry. Do you think it will work for this?
Has anyone found this on the toyota site yet (US). I’m looking everywhere, and I can’t find anything concrete.
I’ve had this in my VW for 3 years, installed it myself in about 20 minutes for ~$150. I control it with the CD buttons. Got it at crutchfield.com. What’s the big deal?
Alternatively, I managed to get a Toyota kit for my iPod. Now, I just sit happily on the iPod, and use the clickwheel to steer around town. It hovers.
I can only hope that VW’s next incarnation of its iPod adapter has such features.
…won’t convince me to buy a Toyota, though.
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The big deal is that it is now available for Toyota owners.
Why did you buy it if it wasn’t a big deal?
Congrats on the integration, Toyota.
Now get back under the hood, and engineer something better than those gotta-be-serviced timing belts and water pumps!
In the meantime, at least the music will be good after the motor’s killed itself…
Pounds?
I just bought a Scion XB tonight, it had iPod integration too (iPhone works too), Nice one Toyota
Went to Toyota website. It is really a poorly designed site. Sent them an email to that effect.
£150 =~ $350 in todays market.
WTF
I looked at the scosch website. The ibck model appears to be a bluetooth tranmitter and reciever that you can plug into the mp3 aux jack in your car stereo.
Can’t find where to buy it online or the cost. Wierd
Went to Toyota website. It is really a poorly designed site. Sent them an email to that effect.
At least they have a suggestion box. Not all manufacturers want to hear from their customers.
So have you heard back from them? Certain other makers like to give canned responses, packaged with some get-you-into-the-showroom sales pitch. My response? “Thanks, but I’d be more apt to buy if you’d only listen…”.
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Try logjamelectronics.com, they have aftermarket integration kits for many OEM stereo systems. I’ve had iPod integration in both my Hondas, my Mazda and my wife’s Toyota.
Try:
http://www.peripheralelectronics.com/
It works great on My Toyota.
@BD
A bucks a buck, a Pound is a Pound.
I take it that you have not lived in another country for an extended period of time. If you have, I bet you spent the whole time and experience bitch’n about how things are better back home, instead of getting on with living the life without the blinkers on.
It is pointless, trying to assert and juxtapose living expenses of one country to another country by the metric of the tourists exchange rates, there are sooooo many other variables involved.
MDN magic word “result” – MDN, you guys are too funny, how do you do it? someone there must be a Pom!