Sony navigates by light of the power ballad

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180 LA nails the power ballad in all its bombastic glory in this amusing video for Sony's in-dash navigation systems with Tom Tom GPS and advanced music technology. The ad rockingly informs consumers they can get route info and tunes in the same unit, with pitch-perfect (though hardly perfect-pitch), overly dramatic delivery of driving instructions. (I assume the car doesn't actually belt out which streets to take as the chords shriek and cymbals crash. More's the pity.)

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