Originally Posted by
David Weaver
I can't think of a worse place to put money in a car than in the navigation system. It's effectively about 10x as expensive as a garmin GPS. At least the last time I looked it was a $2000 upcharge on a new accord to get the navigation. I can only think people even bite on that stuff because they're looking at payment amounts instead of price and in the back of their head is either a twisted perception of the usefulness of a small-market large dollar GPS vs. a large market (meaning more money for R&D and thoughts about efficiency) small dollar GPS.
A car loaded with stuff like that depreciates so much faster than one that doesn't. I learned that lesson (without the GPS being involved, even when I had money to burn it still made no sense to me) the hard way.