I've got two, an older Garmin that doesn't have street name voice integration. I recently bought a Garmin 360 with the street name voice integration. It's much easier to use especially in city traffic where streets and turns are coming at you fast. With the old unit its easy to pick the wrong street, with the newer unit it tells you the street name.

 

I agree you would like the the street name voice out and it comes in handy. Im getting the Garmin Nuvi 250W. Its $350 and has everything you want and need. I already have the Avic-D3 in my truck and that works good.

 

I got the Lowrance XOG Crossover
Heres a little write up I did on it.
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=328944

 

I've seen NIB much cheaper on ebay for the 250W. I got my 360 from a seller on ebay. Three day shipping.

I've also seen them cheaper from Amazon.com

 

Well went on the hunt this morning and found the Garmin 200W for $199 and i also looked at the Garmin Nuvi 680 which was on clearance for $480. But just for the hell of it I went into BJ's and saw the Garmin Nuvi 680 for $399. So I said the hell with it and bought the 680. It has some cool features you can add like weather, gas prices and traffic detours. It also has a FM transmitter and a MP3 player and it has Bluetooth. This is all stuff I will never use, but it nice to have it if needed..

 

"This is all stuff I will never use"

You can't hide money!

 

I have discovered the Bluetooth to be very useful now that I have a six speed manual transmission in my DD. It allows hands free phone use.

 

I do like the the bluetooth, I also like the Fm transmitter. I am trying to figure out if I can tie my Sirius into it somehow.

 

Here is a site with very good reviews of lots of GPSs. They point out the "good" and the "bad" without any bias as far as I can tell. The latest Tom Toms don't do well when it comes to routing...

I had a Garmin C550 and took it back to get Garmin's Nuvi 660 for its larger screen. Most of the Garmins have a "Detour" feature to take you around unexpected road delays, etc. They are very helpful on vacation/business trips and mine has even shown me different(shorter) ways to familiar destinations.

We could have gotten an in-car navigation system when we bought our 2007 Murano but it was a $2,000 option.

Here is a site that I use to find out info on GPSs, in my case, the Garmin Nuvis.



Dan

 

Here is comparison against the Tom Tom one. The Garmin routed much better and faster.

http://www.gpsmagazine.com/2007/02/g...ew.php?page=17

 

I can show you a review (saved on my laptop, so I don't have it right now) where Teleatlas(Tomtom) was 6% more correct than Navteq(Garmin) after 500 plotted locations.

The bottom line here is, don't buy a GPS based on it's mapping, at least not these days. It's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. None are always going to be perfect.

That being said, I have a Tomtom XL S, and it gets me to where I need to go without a hitch.

Personally, I'd take a Garmin or Tomtom. It just depends on the price at the time. The Tomtom I couldn't refuse for the price I paid. I was llooking at the Garmin 200W, because it was cheap, but the 200 only includes maps of Canada, and just the bordering cities in the US, for here anyway. I want mapping for all of North America.

 

They have?

Man, I guess I got lucky when I got mine. I love the damn thing, even though its now $100 cheaper.

 

Navteq (Garmin) vs. Tele Atlas (Tomtom)

http://www.gpsreview.net/navteq-vs-tele-atlas/

 

That was just list price. Im sure you can get it cheaper.

 

garmin nuvi 200w