Can you use Siri hands free in the car?

I am going to be getting my first smartphone soon, and I plan on the Iphone 4S.....however, I haven't seen much on how well, if at all, Siri works in a car.  I have an older Honda Civic, so no integrated bluetooth or anything, but I thought about maybe getting one of those Motorola Roadster devices, or even just using my earbud bluetooth device.  Can Siri be activated and used via this method?  Thanks

So I am in the same situation of wanting to leverage Siri in the car as a voice activated controller for both music and non-music functions. For music I wish to route the iPhone 4S audio over a headphone connection (for now) to my cars audio auxilliary input. I'm having an iPod adpater installed next week in the car so I'll try line out audio next. For non-music audio I'm ok if sound is output from the BT car speakerphone.
I first picked up a Jabra Freeway. Very slick looking device - and expensive. I purchased  before buying iPhone 4S (and Siri) because of its integrated voice features. Well, I didn't like it very much in action so I returned and picked up the iPhone 4S and began using it with my Jawbone 2. I have found that my Jawbone 2 headset is capable of interacting with Siri as I desire. That is to say I can remotely initiate Siri from the Jawbone with littletrouble. Again I route iPhone audio out to my car stereo using iPhone headphone jack.
Wanting to get rid of wearing the Jawbone BT device I picked up a Motorola Roadster. Problem now is that the Roadster is programmed to own the audio - meaning even though the iPhone initially plays music through its headphone jack the audio is switched over to the Roadster after I command Siri through it. I need to unplug the headphone jack connection then re-attach in order for the iPhone audio to play again through the jack.
All I want is to interact with Siri through a BT car speakerphone and allow iPhone to route audio out across either headphone jack or line out. I'll likely return the Roadster and keep hunting for a unit that behaves like the Jawbone but in speakerphone style.
BTW, it should go without saying that the FM audio routing feature of these BT speakerphones is at best a poor workaround.

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