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Spotify Car Thing review

Spotify’s Car Thing is a smart touchscreen with voice control that lets you listen to music and podcasts in the car. But for $80 it still needs a phone to run and you have to be a Spotify Premium subscriber to get your hands on one, as they’re still hard to come by. Follow Lexy:…

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Spotify’s Car Thing is a smart touchscreen with voice control that lets you listen to music and podcasts in the car. But for $80 it still needs a phone to run and you have to be a Spotify Premium subscriber to get your hands on one, as they’re still hard to come by.

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  1. Lexy Savvides

    December 28, 2021 at 6:35 pm

    Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any other Car Thing questions I didn’t answer 🚗

    • Andrew Stanley

      December 29, 2021 at 1:35 am

      I’ve got a 1974 mini cooper s do I have to have a 12 volt connection

    • Lexy Savvides

      December 29, 2021 at 4:08 am

      @Andrew Stanley does your car have a cigarette lighter/any plug at all? If not I guess you could still run the car thing but you’d have to power it with a USB battery pack

    • Lexy Savvides

      December 29, 2021 at 4:10 am

      @Oz Buckshank you can also contact your phone to the car stereo via USB or Aux plug if your car has that. The connections needed are: Car Thing to phone, then phone to car stereo

    • Andrew Stanley

      December 29, 2021 at 11:38 am

      @Lexy Savvides the most it has is a speedometer and a cassette player

    • Obi Dean

      December 29, 2021 at 12:18 pm

      Always love whenever you get featured as the reviewer 🥰

    • Lexy Savvides

      December 30, 2021 at 1:31 am

      @Andrew Stanley oh well, it’s a classic car, hopefully you like the sound of the engine more than Spotify 😂

    • Nan2Tres4

      December 30, 2021 at 2:56 pm

      @Obi Dean Me Too 😍 She’s awesome and Beautiful 🥰

  2. Chasen S

    December 29, 2021 at 1:51 am

    I honestly don’t get this – how is this better than having your phone mounted in the similar position with Spotify open?

  3. Nemo Ciau

    December 29, 2021 at 2:14 am

    People using cracked version 💪

  4. D Ch

    December 29, 2021 at 2:23 am

    That is the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

  5. Ben Grimmerson

    December 29, 2021 at 2:45 am

    I’ve been a premium spotify member forever and they didn’t give me a free one either.

  6. Google has

    December 29, 2021 at 2:52 am

    Hi

  7. besweeeet2

    December 29, 2021 at 3:10 am

    It’s a shame they couldn’t have gotten a condensed version of Android Auto to work with it.

  8. Jonhatan Verdugo

    December 29, 2021 at 3:17 am

    Love the video 😀

  9. yellowfellow

    December 29, 2021 at 4:13 am

    You have beautiful eyes…

  10. Jim Jam

    December 29, 2021 at 4:43 am

    it’s something

  11. shane white

    December 29, 2021 at 5:04 am

    Why not just use your phone? This seems useless…

  12. motherjoker

    December 29, 2021 at 5:09 am

    why not just use your phone with a magnetic mount?

  13. Thomas Zawacki

    December 29, 2021 at 6:08 am

    You could do the same thing by setting up a secondary screen to your phone. That’s all this thing is!

  14. Everything Videos

    December 29, 2021 at 6:32 am

    I don’t listen to music that much in the car when I’m driving. I just like to hear the environment around me.

  15. Marc Peduche

    December 29, 2021 at 6:36 am

    why not use your car bluetooth and pair your phone?

  16. Nyankana

    December 29, 2021 at 8:34 am

    I am assuming for some people, it’s too difficult to simply buy a car mount, mount their phone, and open the Spotify app on their smartphone. This got to in the top 10 most useless accessory ever made.

  17. TurboJobo

    December 29, 2021 at 9:22 am

    What car model is that she was driving?

  18. Grizzlyx9

    December 29, 2021 at 9:51 am

    this broad is listening to M DOOM. gangsta

  19. Chris Cuthbertson

    December 29, 2021 at 10:24 am

    Just buy a cheap phone, and put a big SD card in it and then just leave it in the car just for music playback, connect it to your main phones wifi hotspot.

  20. Anthony Samuel

    December 29, 2021 at 11:40 am

    I just mount my phone

  21. teeshirt

    December 29, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    Thank you for your review, @Lexy! I’ve been looking forward to it. And were you an infomercial actress before? Your acting is a little too on point! 😅

    • Lexy Savvides

      December 29, 2021 at 10:03 pm

      🤣

  22. Wes R.

    December 29, 2021 at 2:08 pm

    Yeah, glad I passed after they cancelled the free promo.

  23. Desu VR

    December 29, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    I’ve been using Spotify for years and I don’t see the problem this is supposed to solve. It doesn’t have an AUX jack so better to just get a new head unit instead and connect the phone to that via Bluetooth. This is just adding more clutter and complexity.

  24. Cxy Baby

    December 29, 2021 at 9:36 pm

    Bro. It sounded like she deadass said MF Doom…

  25. Robert Faulkner

    December 29, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    I don’t think I’d bother with that I just get a Bluetooth for my car if I only had a CD player. I had to do that for my older bmw, and another thing you would have to leave the ignition key in the start position to listen if parked in your car, which isn’t good for long periods of time. Bluetooth btw is only 20.00 vs 80 and you can use your phone apps for various uses, especially maps, also listen to youtube, which I think has the best sound!

  26. aj ashford

    December 30, 2021 at 2:34 am

    What’s the point? Lol

  27. Kevin Hargraves

    December 30, 2021 at 3:18 am

    Just use your Phone and save $80…duhhhhh.

  28. anthony williams

    December 30, 2021 at 3:54 am

    Extra props for MF Doom, and Joey Bad@$$

  29. J V

    December 30, 2021 at 4:07 am

    Okaayyy Joey Bada$$ 🔥 0:48

  30. akui88

    December 30, 2021 at 7:58 am

    “older vehicle, like i am”
    -drives a 2015…
    lady, i am in a 1999 toyota camry…

  31. NileshR12

    December 30, 2021 at 1:27 pm

    You could invest that $80 to get Apple CarPlay & Android Auto so you get navigation in your line of sight of you don’t already have or use a phone mount for your dash, windshield, or air vent

  32. TheDiamondGoldMine // GabrielTDGM

    December 30, 2021 at 1:53 pm

    There isn’t any point of owning this. There isn’t. I don’t see how useful this thing is for $80. I would rather just use a car stereo installed on the car that has Bluetooth instead of this thing where the only function of the device is just…. playing music from Spotify and nothing else.

  33. Jose Calderon

    December 30, 2021 at 3:39 pm

    This thing arrived a little too late

  34. Zydrunas Lescauskis

    December 30, 2021 at 4:22 pm

    I just got an idea. Fitbit Versa 2 has a feature to store a Spotify playlist and play it through your headphones. I’ll sync my Fitbit with my car’s head unit. Voilà.

  35. RiGo

    December 30, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    Yes! MF Doom! R.I.P.

  36. Sinwoo Yoo

    December 31, 2021 at 3:13 am

    what is going on in SF?? smash grab?? what’s that??

  37. Kevin Sandu

    December 31, 2021 at 5:33 am

    what a strange device, it needs your phone to function. it needs to be a standalone device. Otherwise whats the point?

  38. STILL IRISE

    December 31, 2021 at 5:41 am

    @ 4:20 props for playing MF Doom.

  39. Metaforically Speaking

    December 31, 2021 at 6:15 am

    Perhaps Mount an old android and that kinda would be a better solution

  40. Omar Al-Azzawi

    December 31, 2021 at 6:39 am

    This is really pointless I just mount my phone connect through radio and use Android Auto on my phone it’s basically same Android auto on the new cars but much faster zero distractions

  41. Peter Wilkinson

    December 31, 2021 at 7:29 am

    lol

  42. The Eagle

    December 31, 2021 at 9:00 am

    It in my 2012 civic I’ve used echo auto for awhile and love it, I was curious about car thing but seeing I didn’t it for free I’ll stick with echo auto that does so much more

  43. Bryan Asto

    December 31, 2021 at 11:01 am

    I have android auto lol just ordered this two days ago for no reason. We’ll see how this goes

    Also she has good taste in music lol

  44. Wessam Hamadneh

    December 31, 2021 at 11:09 am

    Tbh I’d get this

  45. Jim Vasquez

    December 31, 2021 at 3:23 pm

    Should have a micro SD slot

  46. jim liu

    December 31, 2021 at 4:07 pm

    So why not just attach your smartphone to your dash vent (using a $~20 Kenu) ?

  47. Aminu Hashim

    December 31, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    Did i see fela kuti ??

  48. Nathan Milkie

    December 31, 2021 at 9:11 pm

    I signed up & put myself on the list to test out the Spotify “Car Thing” as soon as the sign ups became available, but alas, Spotify did not send me a unit to test. This was quite disappointing & discouraging because for the past few years, “Spotify Wrapped” has said that I spent more time listening to Spotify, than 99% of all its users. Surely, if I was in the top 1% of time spent using Spotify, the team at Spotify would send me a “Car Thing” to test, knowing that it would be thoroughly tested & put through the “testing gauntlet”, so-to-speak. I guess Spotify only sent the test units of “Car Thing” to well-known people on the internet, knowing they’d make videos about the device for millions of people to see. Sad Days & Sad Times. (LOL, JK) I love how the team at Spotify has improved the overall use & functionality of Spotify. Keep up the great work.

  49. elk80

    December 31, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    I’m a little confused, between your phone and the car thing, which one Bluetooth connects to the car stereo? And what does your phone connect to?

  50. Santiago Fontana

    December 31, 2021 at 10:21 pm

    This would be much more useful with Google Maps / Waze.

  51. SpaceXplorer 16

    December 31, 2021 at 11:18 pm

    I like the name, Car thing.

  52. Diana Meunier

    December 31, 2021 at 11:37 pm

    I bought one of these for xmas after I signed up for the notification from Spotify. While my car is a 2016 and has bluetooth capability, I find that for whatever reason the spotify off my android phone runs like garbage. Not just in the car, but on the phone as well. (very laggy, crashes alot). Not sure why and no one can seem to tell me why and Im running the current versions of android OS and Spotify app. I figured just having a device hooked into the car (even though it runs off the phone data) would be better. My hyundai though has no good area on the dash to mount it. I have it on a vent right now and its a bit clunky. But conncted fast and plays well.

  53. Matthew Xiang

    January 1, 2022 at 8:10 am

    What’s the point if you still need your phone to connected by Bluetooth? Why can’t you just control Spotify via the phone?

  54. Ola Sogaolu

    January 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    I see thumbnail “Adekunle Gold” I click, I like 😄

  55. Mustafa Mehraab

    January 1, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    I don’t have bluetooth in my car

  56. Chris Rahman-Mair

    January 1, 2022 at 2:10 pm

    $80 And you can’t use it for maps?! Lol nah I’ll stick to my phone.

  57. Prashanth Rao

    January 1, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    The most useless thing I’ve seen in a minute.

  58. Kamodomon

    January 1, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    Yeah, I kinda agree there’s potential here. My biggest issues that it’s JUST for spotify, so the voice issues and UI lag is completely unacceptable for $80. Sure, if it did more than spotify I can see a bit of lag for the price, but it’s a dedicated device. Just… no. And the point about losing cell reception and maybe needing some offline music playback is a good point for longer road trips.

  59. M P

    January 2, 2022 at 1:24 am

    Ah the accent. My accent fluctuates between more Australian and more American. It does seem to confuse Digital Assistants.

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