V8 Vantage Satnav

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I have no issues with the satnav in the V8, I actually quite like it. OK, I use TomTom in my other cars, and it is much quicker to set up etc before a journey, with touch screen etc.
What bothers me is that womans voice !! Anyone know of any voice options like with TomTom ? Schwarzenegger or Joanna Lumley would be so much more cool. I'm pretty good with electronics and software etc, but has anyone discovered a way to hack into it?

[v8d]

Seem to have lost the plot on Satnav mods here guys, but hey ho ! I guess the answer is no-one knows how to screw with the software. I will figure it out, just to shut her up!
The C6 Vette ZO6 is a bad, bad boy. If you f*ck with it, it WILL kill you! I have 2 pals who own them, and I so nearly bought one, but went for the V8V cos its just so gorgeous, and I have too many Vettes.
I will be ordering the new Blue Devil supercharged Vette when its released, and it will wipe out the current ZO6. I am currently modding my C5 Vette to around 550bhp with a supercharger, and I am doing some serious work on the engine management software.
I wonder just how much power is hiding in the very conservatively tuned V8V engine? Guess I will have to have a look and find out some day! Hehehehe
With regard to the Pork, Audi, BMW argument, Just ask anyone in the pub what they think of drivers of these mass produced, ugly and soul-less fabrications, and I bet the answer will involve self abuse of some kind! They are well made, very reliable, etc etc, so why as a sound (ish) minded person did I not buy one? Good question, and we will probably never really know the answer.

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Pugsey said:

v8d said:

Seem to have lost the plot on Satnav mods here guys, but hey ho ! I guess the answer is no-one knows how to screw with the software. I will figure it out, just to shut her up!
The C6 Vette ZO6 is a bad, bad boy. If you f*ck with it, it WILL kill you! I have 2 pals who own them, and I so nearly bought one, but went for the V8V cos its just so gorgeous, and I have too many Vettes.
I will be ordering the new Blue Devil supercharged Vette when its released, and it will wipe out the current ZO6. I am currently modding my C5 Vette to around 550bhp with a supercharger, and I am doing some serious work on the engine management software.
I wonder just how much power is hiding in the very conservatively tuned V8V engine? Guess I will have to have a look and find out some day! Hehehehe
With regard to the Pork, Audi, BMW argument, Just ask anyone in the pub what they think of drivers of these mass produced, ugly and soul-less fabrications, and I bet the answer will involve self abuse of some kind! They are well made, very reliable, etc etc, so why as a sound (ish) minded person did I not buy one? Good question, and we will probably never really know the answer.

Interesting comments re. Vettes.

Re. Pork and BMW when I owned a BMW (M3) or Porsche ( BoxsterS, 997S & 997GT3) I couldn't have cared less what the pub pundits thought of me as a driver. Leave them to talk about it while I live it I say. SOUL-LESS!!?? Have any of these people in your local actually driven any of these cars in anger?

Re. the satnav. again, I found it fine as others have butI guess we've drifted a little off topic because who cares anyway - lifes too short.

Edited by Pugsey on Wednesday 18th April 16:23

I agree, can't really beat a good yak, eh?
Some of them do, but its funny how all the passers by stop and admire the Aston. Its a personal choice type of thing I guess, I've tried so hard to like pork, but I just cant get past how eternally ugly they are. (928 excepted) I could get to like a V8 BMW, but sure not for its looks or badge! And we all know what A.U.D.I. stands for ! Back to Vettes again, Have you been in the new ZO6? If not you should, thats what real psychotic V8 power feels like. My pal had a bit of a power loss on his the other week, and upon inspection, we found a pesky little GT3 stuck in the air intake ! Raked it out and it runs like a good'un again ! Hehehe