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JST
08-17-2007, 12:22 PM
http://jalopnik.com/assets/images/gallery/12/2007/08/medium_1148468010_82210dde4d_o.jpg


Good thing they taped over the logo on the steering wheel. Otherwise, we might be able to figure out that this car is a Honda.

I wonder if you will be able to get some sort of Nav system on this car?
rumatt
08-17-2007, 12:25 PM
:bustingup
lupinsea
08-17-2007, 12:57 PM
Maybe they just hadn't gotten around to taping over the screen yet?
JST
08-17-2007, 01:01 PM
Maybe they just hadn't gotten around to taping over the screen yet?

A better question is how the "spy photographer" got into the backseat of the car with a camera.

Also, that whole setup looks suspiciously like iDrive, to me.
Rob
08-17-2007, 01:08 PM
Hasn't Honda moved to touch screen nav systems yet?
Nick M3
08-17-2007, 01:47 PM
Hasn't Honda moved to touch screen nav systems yet?
Looks like they're moving away from them.
John V
08-17-2007, 02:18 PM
Are they stealing steering wheel designs from Subaru's 1985 playbook? :ack:
Theo
08-17-2007, 03:23 PM
Looks like they're moving away from them.

Yup even my friends old school 2004 RL has a touch screen Nav
RMR
08-17-2007, 03:57 PM
Yup even my friends old school 2004 RL has a touch screen Nav

The RDX NAV is not touchscreen. I believe that the TL and the RL have the touchscreen NAV.
Rob
08-17-2007, 05:13 PM
Having used several types, I would be surprised that anyone is including nav that isn't touch screen. It's so ridiculously superior that I am wondering how BMW is going to admit that idrive is done.
ZBB
08-17-2007, 05:16 PM
Having used several types, I would be surprised that anyone is including nav that isn't touch screen. It's so ridiculously superior that I am wondering how BMW is going to admit that idrive is done.

I find it strange that Honda is moving away from touch... the new RL has that same knob.

The Nissan/Infiniti system is a combo knob and touchscreen...
Theo
08-17-2007, 06:48 PM
I find it strange that Honda is moving away from touch... the new RL has that same knob.

The Nissan/Infiniti system is a combo knob and touchscreen...

Well I dont think the Audi or MB nav is touch either. If anything they use a more intuative knob based version of I Drive.

I am not sure I would be into touch based as the screen would always be full of gressy finger prints.
Rob
08-17-2007, 07:08 PM
You only say that b/c you haven't used one. Using a knob or buttons to input anything is asinine compared to a touch screen. I don't know about Audi, but I think you are right about Mercedes.
JST
08-17-2007, 11:06 PM
You only say that b/c you haven't used one. Using a knob or buttons to input anything is asinine compared to a touch screen. I don't know about Audi, but I think you are right about Mercedes.

Audi's nav is not touchscreen, and IMHO it's a complete POS. MMI might work better than iDrive, but if it does it's just an indictment of how bad iDrive sucks, because MMI is awful. I struggled to figure out how to use it, then just gave up. Now I use Google Earth printouts in the Audi, just like the non-nav BMW.
blee
08-17-2007, 11:44 PM
Maybe that's some other car with a Honda nav system in it to fool the press.

(come on, admit it...I blew someone's mind again.)
undefined
08-18-2007, 12:31 AM
JERRY: oh you're crazy

KRAMER: am I? or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?

JERRY: it's impossible

KRAMER: is it? or is it so possible your head is spinning like a top?

JERRY: it can't be

KRAMER: can't it? or is your entire world just crashing down all around you?

JERRY: alright that's enough

KRAMER: yeaaaaah!