IPod came out before cheap flash storage. I am surprised it worked as well as it did for shoving a laptop hard drive in a music player. Would a car be like tha

IPod came out before cheap flash storage. I am surprised it worked as well as it did for shoving a laptop hard drive in a music player. Would a car be like that now? Batteries are close to too expensive, but 38k model 3 says we are close...