SUV looks with van convenience

While its exterior is sporty and SUV-like, 2007 Relay provides the functionality and convenience that mid-van customers need and appreciate: passenger and cargo-carrying flexibility, a high degree of safety, fuel economy, low step-in height, and excellent ride and handling. Its 50/50 split third-row bench seat can be folded to create a level load floor when combined with an available rear storage bin.

The interior also features a front overhead console and a standard overhead rail system (standard on Relay 2 and 3). The rail system integrates the rear HVAC and audio controls, lighting and rear-seat entertainment system/DVD into a single unit. Its snap-in storage and accessory modules provide more functional, flexible storage.

Each of the available three storage modules is 12 inches (305 mm) wide and nine inches to 10 inches (229 mm to 254 mm) deep, with doors that flip open. These allow customers to snap in any variety of specially designed inserts, for items such as CDs, sunglasses, cell phones, PDAs or a first-aid kit.

2007 Relay also offers a rear storage system. With its doors closed, the box-like cargo system's height lines up with that of the folded third-row seat, providing a level load floor for carrying items behind the second row. The cargo system's doors line up with the dividing line on the split/folding third-row seat, allowing users to create a flat load floor for carrying long objects on one side while permitting passengers to sit on the other side. Second-row bucket seats can be folded and tumbled up against the front seats for increased storage, and an available toy box can be installed between them (Relay 2). Captain's chairs, standard on Relay 3, fold flat to permit long objects such as building supplies, ladders, etc.


2007 Relay - Plenty of entertainment choices, including PhatNoise

2007 Relay is distinguished by its wide choice of passenger entertainment systems, including an optional Mobile Digital Media Powered by PhatNoise. This system uses a pocket-sized, 40-gigabyte hard drive cartridge that installs in the Relay's overhead rail system. The system's capabilities include:

- Storing and playing back up to 10,000 songs in MP3, WMA or WAV formats
- Storing and playing up to 40 typical movies in MPEG 4 format
- Storing and playing a combination of songs and movies
- The ability to provide the software for playing classic video games
- The ability to provide a voice-browsing interface - if the driver wants to listen to music, the system tells him or her over the radio speakers the song's name, allowing the driver to run through a list of stored music using radio or steering wheel buttons
- Listening to audio books, magazine or newspaper articles transferred from a PC or downloaded from the Internet
- Allowing simultaneous listening to two entertainment sources

The PhatNoise system's hard drive cartridge is easily removable, so it can be connected to a home PC or laptop to download computer files for playback in the Relay, giving passengers an unprecedented level of entertainment customization.

A six-disc, in-dash CD/MP3 player and XM Satellite Radio (continental U.S. only) are optional on all trim levels. 2007 Relay 3 also comes standard with dual wireless headphones.

XM Satellite Radio provides more than 120 coast-to-coast, digital-quality channels of original commercial-free music and premier news, sports and talk as well as advanced traffic and weather information for select major metropolitan areas nationwide. Consumers can subscribe to the basic service for $12.99 a month. In addition, GM customers with GMAC financing can choose to include the XM subscription in their car payments.

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