Navigation or not?
Driver School Candidate
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From: ca
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Just bought a new rx350 .... the problem is --- if you do not get the navigation package you cannot include several other safety options which I find extremely useful -- lexus navigation --- I never use --- and this is my 3rd lexus -- still not using navigation
Lexus Test Driver
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From: SE PA
Car manufacturers have been doing this for years. Want this? Then you have to buy that! Often you must option something that you rarely use or simply don't want. For me, it has always been the sun roof. I've never used one but have paid for one every time. Arrrgh.
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Joined: Feb 2015
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From: CT
Ill never forget when my dad took me to go look at (then new) the "redesigned" Mustang. 1994 when they first started bringing back some of the retro.
He wanted a V6 convertible, and one of the options it had to have was cruise control.
To get cruise control, he had to buy a package that came with leather wrapped steering wheel and leather wrapped parking brake handle. How nutty!
While Lexus is not alone in doing this, I wish they would adopt the Honda/Acura way....once you pick a package there are little to no options that can be added. Nothing piece meal like hid headlights, different wheels, etc.
He wanted a V6 convertible, and one of the options it had to have was cruise control.
To get cruise control, he had to buy a package that came with leather wrapped steering wheel and leather wrapped parking brake handle. How nutty!
While Lexus is not alone in doing this, I wish they would adopt the Honda/Acura way....once you pick a package there are little to no options that can be added. Nothing piece meal like hid headlights, different wheels, etc.
Pit Crew
Joined: Feb 2015
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From: PA
While I love my Android phone, I feel like its a lot easier to use the nav integrated into the vehicle.
What does bother me about the Lexus nav (and others) is that you cant use it while moving. Its not ME wanting to use it, its my passenger, so why not allow it.
Im sure they could even integrate it into the passenger sensing system....if there is someone in the passenger seat, allow the nav system to be used without using voice recognition.
But overall, I dont think I would buy any new vehicle without a nav system.
What does bother me about the Lexus nav (and others) is that you cant use it while moving. Its not ME wanting to use it, its my passenger, so why not allow it.
Im sure they could even integrate it into the passenger sensing system....if there is someone in the passenger seat, allow the nav system to be used without using voice recognition.
But overall, I dont think I would buy any new vehicle without a nav system.
I installed a bypass myself. Fairly easy to do, and inexpensive. I can use the full address book with a single click.
Driver School Candidate
Joined: Dec 2014
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From: Fl
We like the nav just because we can always have half of the screen always showing where we are and something else of the other side. Plus you get lexus enform on 2015+ that gets you remote start etc. Now do we use the nav? Not yet but we have played with it and its one of the better oem navs we've played with.
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