Navi Questions Before I Visit Sales Department.

[ctrcbob]

Need some info before I visit dealer sales department. With all this talk about Sync, and after taking a ride in a friends 2011 Mustang, and after reading about Sync in syncmyride, I'm still a little confused.

 

1. Can I get a Navi - GPS screen in a Fusion (or any Ford)? My friend, and the syncmyride shows only turn by turn spoken instructions, with no map screen.

 

2. If a Navi GPS screen is available, can I get it without the Sync? (All the stuff on Sync, I neither need or want, except for Navi, but if I have to have it to get a Navi GPS screen, I guess I'd get it and never use it) .

 

All I really want is either a DVD type Navi/GPS unit with a screen, or a Hard Drive Navi/GPS unit with screen. (DVD type like in my MKZ is easy to update, Hard Drive unit is much more difficult and complicated to update).

 

I'm asking here because I don't want to listen to the stuff a dealer salesperson will try to tell me.

[mettech]

Yes

 

No

[akirby]

The navigation/GPS unit is separate from the Sync unit. You can get Sync without Nav, but not sure if you can get the Nav without Sync.

[RMS10]

I believe te SYNC comes with the NAv system even through SYNC's nav is not used. Sync's cellphone bluetooth linkup is nice to have. Haven't used to many voice commands when using the nav package in my 2010 Mustang in most cases it has been easier just to use the touch screen. Still learning what I can do with the nav system. For the Fusion I beleive you have to get the SEL model or high trim line. I will probably purchase an SE in the next coouple of weeks. I will be purchasing a JVC GPS/radio to install in the SE. It will be just a couple hundred dollars cheaper then the factory nav but I don't want to pay the several thousand dollars to get an SEL.

[Waldo]

The Nav unit in the new Fusions are hard drive based, but are so much better than the one in your MKZ that you won't believe it. It's just as easy to update as the DVD versions, you just stick the disc in there and press a button or two and you're all set. It is a separate device from Sync, but Ford has packaged them such that you must get Sync with the Nav.

In 2011 you can get the Sync navigation services with the Nav unit. You can use Sync to find a destination (it is constantly updated, so if you can't find something in the Nav, it's probably in Sync), then it sends that destination straight to the Nav system.

 

I think once you own it and try it, you'll find Sync to be quite useful. I love to be able to put all my favorite music on a USB stick and carry it around instead of having to lug around a case of CDs.

[ctrcbob]

The Nav unit in the new Fusions are hard drive based, but are so much better than the one in your MKZ that you won't believe it. It's just as easy to update as the DVD versions, you just stick the disc in there and press a button or two and you're all set.

 

This is nice to know, if it is true that it is as easy to update the hard drive unit as it is the DVD versions. My Genesis has the Hard Drive system, and although it functions great, in order to update it, the whole hard drive (I.E. everything other than and including the Navi) must also be updated, using three seperate discs, that the dealer keeps, and it takes three hours to do the update. Crazy.

 

OK, you guys gave me good information. I may consider buying a Fusion with only the Sync and without the Navi GPS Screen, as that car will probably not be taking many long trips, like the two or three a year I do with my Genesis. (The MKZ has not been on a long trip in over two years and the Continental goes on one a year).

 

Not sure if I'll trade the Continental or the MKZ.