![]() ![]() The final straw was when we were meeting friends at a restaurant, the Garmin had no knowledge of it. Garmin, whose interface I like) because even the quarterly updates were too infrequent and still out of date. BMW only provided one CD, additional CDs were like $300 each, or you could buy the whole country for $2,000 - that's on top of what the system cost as an option (I think around $2,500). Worst was my folks' 2000 BMW 740i, the Navi had a CDRom drive in the trunk, and each CD only covered a couple of states. Plus it was a terrible terrible system, the 2016 Outback's OEM system is great in comparison. ![]() I had an aftermarket Alpine system in my STI - in 7 years they had one update and it required you to send the add-in unit back (despite being advertised as end user upgradable) and pay $100. Pretty much everyone except Garmin and TomTom screw you on updates. Plus the OEM system is easier for the driver to use (clearer directions, both voice and visual, than a cell phone based GPS). Problem is heading to some ski resorts in BFE you lose cell reception for long stretches and Waze / Google Maps becomes useless. ![]() I did notice the system is already a little out of date in my 2016, a major road in Vermont that opened in 2014 was missing, but was on Waze. ![]()
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