That's the issue. It's so much easier to use a dedicated device in that scenario. It's possible to do what you said. Google Maps offers the option to download maps, but the route needs to be planned AFAIK. And if there's a detour miles out of the way, which occurs once or twice a summer in Bumbleton Center, NY with no…

You think last year's finish was a reasonable thing?

hey, is this Max’s daddy? 

Fuck you.

as a viewer trackside at Albert Park, it was fantastic to be back

I keep seeing a lot of comments they say things like this and I’m confused. Smartphones have had GPS receivers in them for decades. They can tell their location pretty closely without a cellular signal. The trouble is that the built in maps applications generally don’t allow you to download maps and store them…

The nav system was a major selling point for the Bronco. Its nav system is much more useful than the average system in cars today because it has built in offroad trail maps. That’s a major boon to the overlanding/offroading community and I can see why it’d be a bigger loss to some people than you might think.

Is it still going to have android auto/car play? Or the screen is completely gone?

I can’t believe, in 2022, that people are actually paying for a nav subscription service; I got a chance to try out Android Auto in a rental this year, and now I want to upgrade my old nav head unit with it-worked perfectly and everything is current.

Every time there’s a post like this I’m reminded how many people live in the city or suburbs and have never been outside of them. And there’s nothing wrong with that! It’s just a curious lack of knowledge but being ready to make pronouncements about how everyone should be doing things without knowing whether that…

I had an MB C300 as a rental last week. Probably three years old, had MB Comand with Navigation. That thing is so bad they really must have willfully designed it to be infuriating to use. And no AA that I could find in that mess. I just stuck my phone in the cupholder and used it directly.

I’ll always get nav in my cars if it’s available. If I’m on a road trip or visiting someone out of town i.e. the places you’d most likely need nav, and have shit reception phone maps are useless. I may not use it all the time but actual in-dash GPS is a great failsafe, plus a lot of times it looks nicer than the…

Sometimes genuinely useful or desirable comforts [...] like start-stop tech

“The 2022 Bronco lineup will lose its optional factory navigation system option beginning with Job 2 production, which applies to all models built on or after May 2, 2022, though that date is subject to change.”

At Ford, Quality is Job One. Quality Blanking Plates are Job Two.

There are still a few areas of rural NY where cell coverage is spotty at best. Those areas are coincidentally some of the best camping areas. Having some kind of standalone GPS when it's dark and rainy with no cell coverage has saved my bacon more than once. Even the woefully outdated maps in our tow pig are useful…

I have NAV in my ‘14 GC and I like it when I use it, which is not often. I haven’t updated the maps since I got it, but it does have a yelp app that I use to find places I want to go and will send that location to the nav. system so, while the roads may not be up to date, the Yelp app is and can get me to a shop or…

on sync 2, when you dont have nav ford gives you a nav icon that barely functions as a compass. its as bad as a switch blank on your $70k dollar car. its always staring you in the face.

I dunno about the android version, but apple car play is incredible. I have a f-150 and I never use the ford system at all because my phone is 100% plugged in every time I get in the car.

My car (Mazda CX-5) just needed a special SD card to enable navigation,* which cost like $230 even though moving up to the package with navigation was several thousand. Seemed like a no-brainer, since the internal nav will synch with the gas gauge (miles to destination vs miles to empty) and the HUD, which is really…

I have GPS in my Audi. My iPhone works better and it is always up to date, quite not the case of my now 5-year old Audi. So, meh.