Does anyone know of good portable GPS/nav units for cars? I'd prefer not having to attach it to a laptop. Something that has audible directions and a color LCD screen would be nice. The Job 2 Mustangs are supposed to have an optional Pioneer DVD/Nav system but for $2,000 I wouldn't have bought it anyhow.

 

We use a magellan roadmate. The chick is annoying when you don't do what she tells you though....
MAKE THE NEXT LEGAL U TURN........

 

Are they all capable of giving me my speed and location in case I want to compare the GPS speed to my actual vehicle speed?

 

portable? i use a garmin's. very user friendly. it does excatly that. if u want it to the hundredth mph.

EDIT: i have the one my05gt's has. its good but not up to date with most recent new stores, obviously.

 

I use and like the Garmin C330

 

The Garmin Quest II is what I am issed at work and I use it all time, very user friendly. It will even tell you where the closest Outback restuarant is!!

 

The best portable navigation solution on the market is the useless 3 pound lump located in lazy folks heads and a little piece of paper with symbols and lines on it called a map.

 

so if u go from oregon to florida your gonna bring a map? lol. buy the time u buy all those maps you'll be able to buy a GPS. GPS is the best thing. Maps are backups now a days.

 

I may have to do a lot of traveling in the future so I'm thinking about buying a portable car GPS so I can take it along and install it in a rental car if needed. In the meantime I bought a map for local traveling but a GPS would be more convenient. I'm not sure which to get at the moment: a radar detector or a GPS unit.

 

I use a garmin c320. You can find them for around $260. It uses SD memory sticks. You get a touch screen display and voice assisted turn-by-turn directions. It comes with a suction cup windshield mount so it's easy to move from one vehicle to another. It comes with a 128MB memory stick which is enough to hold the maps of about 6 states. I bought a 1GB memory stick for $15 and that holds all of USA and some of Canada. With a couple of inexpensive memory sticks your map storage is limitless, so it makes it really expandable.

The bottom line is, it's a good inexpensive way to get gps navigation.

 

I highly recommend the Garmin Nuvi 350. Fits in your shirt pocket and prices have fallen to around $450.

 

My girlfriend has a Garmin. Its awesome.

 

I own the Garmin Street Pilot !5
She's 100% accurate. I call her LOLA.

 

There are these things called atlases that have lot's of maps in them. They're pretty cheap and most all of the states are in them! And then there's this thing called the internet. It's great! Lots of ****, and even the occasional resource like MapQuest and Google Maps that can even give you directions!

The ability to read a map is a dying art. Once upon a lifetime ago during a hellish field exercise to Fort Lost-in-the-Woods, MO my squad happened on a group of young butter bar Engineers who couldn't find their buttocks with a map and compass. The average schmuck behind the wheel of several thousand pounds of steel is little better. Technology can, and should, never take the place of a little old fashioned brainpower.

 

i have the Alpine... it got me from NYC to San Fran, so i'd say it does a good job

 

I know how to use them, i just hate fiddleing around and trying to find the correct way to fold it when ur done. now that i got the gps, its so much easier. but it is good to have maps w/ you anyway.

have you bought one Metroplex? i also hear that the pioneer is good.

 

We use it on long trips.
Brian has a tendency when driving to suddenly need gas- and get off the interstate in the ghetto where there are no gas stations in sight(instead of the previous exit where there are thousands of places). SO it comes in handy.

As for navigating around town, If I don't know where it is, I mapquest it.

 

I haven't bought one yet, but the c320 or i5 look pretty good. I'm trying to find a really solid unit for under $300.