RE: Porsche GT3 RS revealed

[430 Spider]

nevetas said:

Is SATNAV even an option on an RS????

Yep, and would weigh considerably less than aircon, so my thinking is if you get aircon, you might as well get sat nav.

[nevetas]

Is the 997 Sat Nav better than 996, the SAT Nav in my turbo wasn't great.

Especially when you compare it to the latest generation Garmin Nuvi's with 3d mapping, street level Europe, talks road names etc etc.

[AndrewD]

barrythompson said:

AndrewD said: Good stuff Barry, one in orange for me as well Andrew, Good one, after speaking to Rich last night it looks like he has his eyes on your MK2!! BT

Great stuff!

[nbetts]

nevetas said:

Is the 997 Sat Nav better than 996, the SAT Nav in my turbo wasn't great. Especially when you compare it to the latest generation Garmin Nuvi's with 3d mapping, street level Europe, talks road names etc etc.

Steve, the Sat-Nav in the 997 is an improvement in what you used to have... mainly it is a bit quicker and it has the traffic-master information - other than that a late version of Tom-Tom et al - is a better system.

It epends on how much you like prefer the 'Intergrated' Porsche unit as opposed to a 'Stick-On' Jobbie.

[gunner]

spoke to Porsche GB today.Now they're saying 50 UK cars model year 07,and 50 model year 08...doesn't sound very limited to me...

[Dr S]

nbetts said:

nevetas said:

Is the 997 Sat Nav better than 996, the SAT Nav in my turbo wasn't great.

Especially when you compare it to the latest generation Garmin Nuvi's with 3d mapping, street level Europe, talks road names etc etc.

Steve, the Sat-Nav in the 997 is an improvement in what you used to have... mainly it is a bit quicker and it has the traffic-master information - other than that a late version of Tom-Tom et al - is a better system.

It epends on how much you like prefer the 'Intergrated' Porsche unit as opposed to a 'Stick-On' Jobbie.

IMHO the 997 one is way superior to what the 996 used to have. The old system took decades to calculate the route be it at starting the oute or when being forced to take a detour. With the new system it's just punching in the address and off you go. And luckily it now tends to acutally take the fastest route and uses a single DVD compared to the CD disk jockeying required in the 996. Maybe not better than stick-on's - which I never used - but massively better than the old model.