What an excellent post. These were exactly the reasons I paid the original price for a riocar over an empeg instead of the much cheaper (at the time) neo.

If the "terrible product comparison page" you're reffering to is andy's, I'd say thats a pretty extreme view. I think it's an extremely informative summary. Perhaps in its attempts to remain completely objective, it does not emphasize many of the advantages of the empeg (e.g. user interface).

Andy, perhaps, you might want to edit the page to somehow emphasize some of the strengths and weakness of each product? I would agree that with so many different catagories it a bit too hard to see how much better the empeg is (i'm pretty sure thats not just my opinion).

John