Piping mp3's to rented car stereos on long trips

I intend to rent cars every so often for 5-hour cross-province trips. That means the frequencies that are not occupied by radio station broadcasts are constantly changing. I browsed http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shopipod/ipod_accessories/caraudio and found the following two options.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TW682LL/A
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TU372LL/A
For those who do long trips, which have you found more suitable?
Thanks.

Oh, cool. That means no extra stuff to collect and bring around (and hide when I stop for coffee).
The cassette adapter seems like the perfect solution for my clunker, which I don't take on long trips. I even use to own such an adapter, came with the discman I got 1.5 decades ago. But I recently got rid of it cuz I never found myself using it (never had an mp3 player). Oh well, probably peanuts at the local electronics store. I'll do a last search for it in case I misremember tossing it.
Thanks!

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