If I'm alone in one of our vehicles, I usually don't listen to the radio, personal recordings....anything really. I'm content to just glide along without listening to anything. Goes for short hops or long distance highway drives. My first vehicles were motorcycles so that is maybe where I got into the habit.
I do like the sound of a nice sounding engine though....and do like to hear both our car engines....run hard through the gears. They are both healthy V6's and have a nice note when under load...but they're not under load that much
...so that would be just an occasional aural treat.
I'm retired now, so I don't usually listen to traffic reports and being retired try to avoid driving downtown anyway...so don't have the need to find out which route is blocked, etc.
When driving with my wife or friends, we talk with each other...the radio/sound system is off.
What do you do ?