Hey Twodaves, I'm Service
Also, holy crap. You get bonus points from me. You accurately predicted what I was originally going to use for my next case mod, haha. I've since changed ideas and the new idea is still under wraps, but for my car mod idea, it was a little more intricate than just shoving a computer in the trunk, haha.
My good ol' cohort (Narke) and I had originally decided that we wanted to utilize a computer within a car. Obviously, as you pointed out, it need to be more than just having a computer in a car. So, the plan was to remove my stereo deck and replace it with the guts of a netbook. To make it actually be useful, we had planned some of the following:
1) We'd also purchase one of those touchscreen mods that are available to make the computer easier to use.
2) We'd wire up a speaker system in the car (Probably would replace the car speakers with a Logitech system) for use as a music player/movie player
3) Purchase various sensors and incorporate existing ones so that you could display diagnostics on the computer.
4) Had we the funds, we wanted to get some sort of GPS for the computer to utilize.
5) Use an OCZ NIA for additional hands-free control of the computer.
We had a few more ideas in there along with having more of the fleshy details, but it's been a while since we had talked about it. Our new project is going to take a while and it's possible we might not have it ready for 6.0, but I'll see what we can do