Ghost50
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Wow - I wish the "new" Nav was like that. I too find this one to be very basic. I find it cumbersome to use in comparison to Google maps. As everyone knows you can type in a name of whatever you want in Google and it pulls it up. The Ford system isn't as expansive as that and even on some numerical addresses it struggles to find them.The Info/Nav setup in both my 2010 Track pack edition, my 2011 CS/GT and my 2011 GT 500 w SVT pck was set up WORLDS better than the current infotainment systems.
The new versions are literally 1) Less intuitive 2) Missing features we used to have (where is the feature where you can overlay the weather radar over top of your navigation display?) and just completely gone backwards.
in my old system i could do a voice command and say "find outback" it would show it to me on the Nav...then with a SINGLE BUTTON press i was calling my order in while driving there (I then sat in the car at the curb and watched big bang theory episodes on DVD on the screen while waiting the order. If i was in a bad storm i could literally over lay a weather radar over my route to see if i was driving into it worse, driving out of it or stuck, in the middle of it....you can't seem to do that now. Remember the record breaking tornado outbreak from April 25-28, 2011 where 348 people got killed. I got caught near that while traveling from work and used the radar to make sure i wasn't driving into it worse while looking for shelter, eventually riding it out in a parking deck attached to a movie theater (I wasn't too close to the tornados but hail was coming down every where and i was trying to avoid having my car smashed by baseball and golf ball sized hail. I must say, that system saved my bacon that night).
And the worst thing...voice recognition is completely unusable in the newer versions, although in the older versions it worked great. The old Shaker 500 was also better than the newer "9 speaker audio" they have in these things by a wide margin. I buffed mine with a digital audio amp and a removable Digital Audio sub and now it sounds passable, plus i can pull the sub out to lighten the weight or make room in the trunk in about 3 minutes time, which is a good reason not to invest in one with an integrated sub. (Simple velcro holds it in place and it looks okay sitting in there).
Go figure...
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