DLTSX6MT

I love my NAV, and I always figured this to be true.
But it still blows chunks to read that this is becoming widespread reality...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/...ale-usat_N.htm

Presto

My dad just told me about this article 2 days ago, i was really suprised to read that, i would have expected to pay more for my CL_S with Navi!

RGlesing

Navigation is just another feature of an automobile the value of which can never be recovered at resale. If you get navigation in your new car, it has to be for you, not the next guy.

RGlesing

You actually will pay more. Just not as much, proportional to the price of the car itself. In other words if the new car was $30,000 without navi, and $32,000 with navi and it has depreciated to 55% without navi and 53% with navi, then you are paying $16,500 for it without, but you pay $16,960 with it. See, you are paying more dollars but a lower percent of the original cost.

DLTSX6MT

If you pretend the car was two parts, one part the car, and the other part the Nav system, it’s natural that the nav system will drag down the car. The car will retain 55% of it’s value, while the Nav system, like a computer or cell phone, will retain almost none. Add those together and the overall value of the car will be less than 55% of the original value.

The fact that a NAV unit itself loses much more value than the car around it shouldn’t be a surprise.

Such is the price you pay for having something that obsoletes almost overnight to play with for the last three years.


Try buying a new portable NAV unit, or laptop, or cell phone today and selling it three years later – you’re not likely to get 55% back for that, either. Heck, I bought a flash drive a year ago for almost a hundred bucks – it’s on sale now in stores for $9.99!

Reach

Precisely why I bought it, I'm concerned about the 4+ years of use I intend to get out of it, not the next poor sod.

Tsx536

Yeah, I took this into account when I went with Aftermarket navigation. My audio/video setup plans were a bigger reason why I leaned towards the aftermarket direction though.

It was hard to pass up the OEM Navi though. It's very nicely integrated with the dash and really helps to set off the interor. Just like most things, there are pros and cons for both.

CGTSX2004

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Off-Topic and is already being discussed.