On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:29:33 +0100, Tim S Kemp wrote
(in article ) :

md1jrw wrote:

The point of my original post was my total amazement that BMW would
have such a totally crap system in a brand new £45K car. The car
itself is great and enormous fun to drive, which simply serves to
highlight how out of place the satnav system is.

Which is why some cars are now coming with docks for Garmin / TomTom. My
Garmin updates are £60,

As much as that? My last Garmin update (City Navigator for all of
Europe) was $75. With VAT it came to around £45

most OE updates are over £100. Maps go out of date, POIs go out of
date. I'd recommend to anyone who drives a lot to get a
non-integrated nav.

I quite agree. My last car which I changed 3 years ago had an
integrated sat. nav. It was quite a primitive unit by today's
standards and as you say, the map updates were horribly expensive.
After 3 years they lost interest and stopped producing updates
altogether. That's when I bought a Garmin and I've never looked back.

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