This top-line audio system is simply amazing, with 600 watts of pure, undefiled power, ten speakers, a processor that inputs bandwidth,
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| This top-line audio system is simply amazing, with 600 watts of pure, undefiled power, ten speakers, a processor that inputs bandwidth, peak audio levels and coverage uniformity, for a nice full surround-sound. (Photo: Trevor Hofmann, Canadian Auto Press) |
peak audio levels and coverage uniformity, for a nice full surround-sound, but just the same I spent more time toying with the DVD-based nav system during my journey around New York. First of all, I'm a big lover of navigation systems when traveling. Just set the destination and let the car guide you along the way. So, for the most part this system, equipped with a large 6.5-inch wide colour screen, did its job well, a little annoying due to fairly poor sound quality (it actually sounded tinny, like it was distorting) plus an irritating and unnecessary chime that preceded each verbal direction. Kudos to Lincoln, mind you, for being advanced enough to include verbally announced street names along with exit
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| For the most part, the nav system worked fine all day, taking us out to rural New York and back again, plus on a tour of Manhattan. (Photo: Trevor Hofmann, Canadian Auto Press) |
numbers, etc. It only went haywire once, during a jaunt down the 95, where it told us to make the first U-turn possible while showing our car on the map traveling through the woods. We were staring at it, perplexed, when all of a sudden the little red arrow hopped an inch to the right on the screen, and voila, we were on the 95. Fortunately we sustained no neck injuries, being that the experience was purely virtual, but it left us spinning as to what actually had happened. Otherwise the system worked fine all day, taking us on a tour of Manhattan, down Broadway, which turns into 7th and then Varick, around the block to Church and then Ground Zero, back up Hudson, to 8th and past the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings again to Broadway, and finally back to our hotel at Lincoln Center (how apropos).
