Does anyone know if the factory nav is any good? It has traffic, but it doesn't have voice command. Can you control anything while the car is in motion?
Is the sound quality as good as the JBL or any better than the stock radio?
If you need both bluetooth and nav, are you better off with the JBL stereo and a portable nav or getting the factory nav and using aftermarket bluetooth?
Factory Navis are about $2,000. If money isn't an issue for you, go for it.
Other than that, get the cheapest radio option Toyota has, rip it out and spend $200 on a portable Navi. Pocket the $1,000 and with the remaining $800 you can install a kick ass sound system that will blow away the overpriced factory unit.
I spoke to a local dealer and they are telling me the XLE with Navigation is not available in my area in New Jersey. Is this true? If anybody knows the answer it is you guys. Thanks, j
I spoke to a local dealer and they are telling me the XLE with Navigation is not available in my area in New Jersey. Is this true? If anybody knows the answer it is you guys. Thanks, j
I don't know about NJ, but I have seen them on XLEs in California. Unfortunately, I didn't test drive any of them to see the navigation function.
Factory Navis are about $2,000. If money isn't an issue for you, go for it.
Other than that, get the cheapest radio option Toyota has, rip it out and spend $200 on a portable Navi. Pocket the $1,000 and with the remaining $800 you can install a kick ass sound system that will blow away the overpriced factory unit.
I think it's cheaper than that and the JBL is over $700 anyway. I don't want an aftermarket stereo because they attract break-ins.
I've been in several Corollas, XRS and S models. The JBL system sounds VERY nice. Very surprising. The thing that is annoying is that the navigation option deletes the JBL/Bluetooth package. The NAV stereo system is crap in comparison, and you can't use the system while moving since you can't use voice commands to call out POI icons. My conclusion is that to get everything I want, which is NAV, Bluetooth and JBL, I'll have to get a Camry 4cyl MT. While I worked in marketing, I talked to the product manager for Corolla and Matrix who advised me that the chief engineer felt that it'd be too expensive of an option to sell all three features together in a small car. They are now working on getting all three options available but provided no ETA of when you'd be able to order it.
My conclusion is that to get everything I want, which is NAV, Bluetooth and JBL, I'll have to get a Camry 4cyl MT. While I worked in marketing, I talked to the product manager for Corolla and Matrix who advised me that the chief engineer felt that it'd be too expensive of an option to sell all three features together in a small car. They are now working on getting all three options available but provided no ETA of when you'd be able to order it.
I'm guessing you work at TMS or TTC
I looked at the Camry SE 5 speed 4-cyl, and despite what the brochure or website says, the MT Camry cannot be configured with the Navigation (NV isn't one of the options for 2545). i don't know why Toyota can't build them that way, since most of the 4 cylinder SEs I see at the dealer aren't even equipped with the Navigation, and to find the 5 speed SE with the JBL is even rare.
People will still break in and fish around the car looking to see if the faceplate is hidden somewhere inside.
Very unlikely. A thief doesn't want to spend 5 minutes looking around inside your car for a head unit that could only be worth $100.
I had a $400 head unit in my older car and despite parking it in ghetto neighborhoods notorious for theft, my aftermarket unit with the face taken out, never fell victim. However, poor saps would get their factory unit stolen. Factory units costs HUNDREDS even over a thousand in dealerships, however you can buy them for a fraction at eBay. ironic
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