Navigation System

Not 100% sure if this belongs here, you can move it if you dont like where the thread is, and im sure there are other threads somewhere throughout AF but it's relevant for me since i have a stealth.

I was thinking of purchasing a navigation system, but I dont know what one to buy. I dont mind spending money on it, because it's not exactly for me its for my fiancee for christmas. So I wanted a couple reviews and opinions on different models of navigation systems to figure out which one would be the best purchase.

I heard a lot of good thing's about tom tom's, but then again i never owned any so I dont exactly know for a fact.

Any opinions will help, thanks!

I don't own one either but I've heard a lot of good things about Garmin as well.

I've heard more bad things about Tom Tom than good. I've heard nothing but good things out of Garmin.

I know I really hated their commercials. Garmin's were funny as hell.

^ that's how you rated their product, based on commercial?

i like mapquest, that way you can look for roads that don't exist on streets that are only 1way roads now.

this might be a little different, but could he pull one from another mitsu car? or would that require new computer parts for the car rather than plug and go?

Factory nav systems are usually built in with all the ECU hardware etc. It would cost more and be more of a headache than going Garmin, etc.

They have many indash Nav systems that double as headunits/DVD players etc now. Many are now getting down to $500 range.

I am going to go with a carputer eventually. A friend of mine put one in his 3000 and gave me a list of parts I need to get a similar setup in mine. It will have a touch screen with capabilities of accessing a harddrive full of songs, watch DVD's or use navigation.

the new dvd/navi/cd head unit was another thought, can the directions be read to the driver through the speakers, or is it more a visual thing that they have to take the eye's off the road?


i've been wanting to do it with my car too, so a couple questions from me

Well as far as some of the in dash units I am sure they come out thru the speakers. I dont know about the carputer system as that hasnt came up in my questions yet.

as far as portable GPS, Magellan is the way to go. i have one, and while its not perfect (i got misguided only twice, but then again i have the lowest model), i wouldnt get anything else :thumbsup:

as far as portable GPS, Magellan is the way to go. i have one, and while its not perfect (i got misguided only twice, but then again i have the lowest model), i wouldnt get anything else :thumbsup:
No offense but I've heard even worse things about Magellan than both Tom Tom and Garmin combined.

i've never even heard of magellen, tom tom not in a long time, discovery just did a little test between the human and map and a gps, looked like garmin. garmin got the woman to the party 7hrs before the guy with the map, but he sucked at directions.

garmin has over 1,000 vans hooked up with camera's that take pictures of road signs, traffic, road names, and so on every day of the year. driving every road from a highway to the back alley, basically if the van can fit, it'll be on the garmin within a yr

^ that's how you rated their product, based on commercial?

Nooooo. I have no use for such a product so I don't pretend to know how good any of them are. I was simply pointing out what I do know. :grinyes:

fair enough. i've never had a use for gps navigator in a car. mapquest works, or the good old fashioned map. i can understand trying to get anound an unfamiliar city like L.A, NYC, or Philly or something like that, but most of the time a regualr map is fine. or just using logic works too

Mapquest has screwed me over more times than I can count.

I find that Google Maps is fairly accurate, for Utah anyhow.

i used mapquest to get to a movie theater in Morristown(big town in NJ) and it took me to some road that was a one way(coming at me) and told me to go down it, i went around and got on it, it then stated turn right onto this road, and it didn't exist, just a shitload of houses and driveways. i found humor in all of it, and eventually made the theater.

mapquest is great for that, a quest to find shit that doesn't exist

No offense but I've heard even worse things about Magellan than both Tom Tom and Garmin combined.

haha really? wow thats interesting