those with after market navs installed do you have photos you can show us on here?

 

Pretty good review from JD Power:

http://www.jdpower.com/corporate/new...spx?ID=2008237

 

What just happened?

 

Definitely! I love mine. Its got lots of great features, and looks the dash look 100 times better.

 

Oh I know, I have been following them for a long time as well. It looks more promising this year. I will continue to wait since I am in no need to get a navi anytime soon.

As for the OP, if you can get a good deal on the stock navi, I don't see why it wouldn't be a good buy. I just don't like all the hoops you have to jump threw to get dvd/aux moving on the move.

 

Here you go:

 

brain fart

 

I had the Nav in my GTS, and I really really wanted it for my Evo as well, and of course I ended up getting it. The $2k price tag doesn't bother me so much, even though it's ridiculous. I just like that EVERYTHING is right there in one location. It makes the interior of the car look not so "rental car'-ish. Granted an aftermarket one can do the same. personally, I like the mileage tracker for the gas tank. Love that I never have to reset a trip meter when I fill up. I occasionally watch a DVD on it, but that mostly happens when I'm stuck in the taco bell drive through for 20 minutes

As for the navigation stuff, Finding an address on the mmcs is a bunch of crap sometimes. With my Garmin GPS in my truck, I can find an address in no time, but sometimes with the mmcs I have to look for the address a couple different ways. It's bad in urban areas where one address might be considered to be in one city, but for some reason the maps have that address in a different city. For example, I live in Denver, CO, however I'm on the very far north edge of Denver, near Thornton. My address is only found under Thornton, even though it is most certainly Denver until 8 blocks north of me.

The other great thing is that so many of the car's options can be set through the mmcs, whereas you have to pull out your manual to figure out how to change those settings w/o it. (i.e. door lock, wiper options, language, etc). I also like having the controls on the steering wheel.

My biggest complaint about the mmcs is that when you rewind or fast forward something on a CD, it is literally at double, MAYBE triple speed. I tend to listen to very long techno sets, so when I have 3 hours worth of music and want to FF 45 minutes in, it literally can take nearly 15-20 minutes to FF that far. It's GAY.

As a software engineer, the other thing I love about this system, is that it's so infinetly configurable. With super smart people out there like (What's that dude's name that disables the in motion DVD hack? Taku??), they have the ability to customize this thing to do things we could never even imagine with any other type of nav system.

For comparison sake, my boss bought a 2006 Corvette Z06 a couple years ago, and right after he got it, I installed a huge stereo in it. His big thing was that he wanted to make sure that everything else stayed stock up front. Stock nav system. Well, after buying my Lancer, I was playing with his nav, and holy crap, what a piece of ****. The damn thing doesn't even accept mp3 CDs, and won't play DVDs. It has a second dvd drive for the map data. The mmcs blows away that american piece of crap in the vette (which I'm sure isn't american anyway, lol). So, basically my $22k econo-car had a better nav system than an $80k sports car.

The MMCS is far from perfect, but IMO, it's worth it. And I'm one who likes to rip apart cars and install new stereos in them..

 

I don't see any reason to get it unless you really care about presentation of the interior. In terms of function, any aftermarket option will match it at the fraction of the price for factory nav. Navs interfaces tend to look "old school" anyway about 2 years after they are released, and then you'd be stuck with it. Save yourself the money and get something else.

 

The pioneer unit looks good installed. I think I might get that one now.

 

I love mine, I do think it's worth it.

 

Mmmmm, coming soon to a Suby near you... I hope... Love the Pioneer unit.

Yes!

 

Do the Mitsubishi navigation units in the United States also integrate with the radio to give traffic data??? Or is this available elsewhere?

 

if i bought my x again. i still wouldn't get the navi.. but i would def get the projectors

 

Get navi, no question! Just so you don't have to stare at that plain *** dash! I Don't have projectors though, and it' urks my soul having to deal with my after market hid's and the whole drl flicker problem, If I had the chance to do it again, I'd get the sss pack in stead of just base with navi.