Audi GPS

[Brett Dikeman]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, SteveR <srosen at starxray.com> wrote:

> The views are from
> street or airborne and you can move your view with the MMI wheel.

Yeah, but will you actually be able to search for things easily and
quickly?  I remember test-driving an A3, and then to get back to the
commuter rail station, we hopped in an A4 2.0T 6-speed with nav.

It was a multi-MINUTE affair to try and do something as simple as find
the train station and set it as a destination.  The "brand specialist"
poked around in a number of menus and we eventually just drove there
from memory.  FAIIIIIL.  Now you know why most cars on the dealer lot
don't have nav disks in them (and the dealer "can't find them")- the
$2,000 system sucks.  Hard.

My Volvo's nav system dates to circa 2002 or so, and it only takes
about 30 seconds to find the nearest transit stations/gas stations/etc
(and you can do it without taking your hands off the wheel, or looking
down at the dash.)

-B