Four adults off to Boston for a wedding. It's 1200 miles. The Fit gets you cheaply to the airport with room for all the luggage. SWA gets you semi-cheaply to Boston. Baggage fees: $Zero for all this stuff.

Which has more passenger room--the Fit or Southwest's head-haulers? The Fit wins easily.

Who has the better navi?



Hmmm.



By the way--we drove the Fit to Boston two summers ago. The Fit's navi was much more useful than the Garmin we took along to use in the rental car this time. To all of you who drive Boston roads every day—my sympathy.

Cheers.

 

Beautiful

 

Did you serve snacks? Nice shots!

 

Good description SportMTNavi, Makes me proud to be a FIT owner

In what ways do you find the FIT's navi was superior and much more useful than the standard Garmin GPS?

 

Hah! Leftover peanut bags from SWA.

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Here are a couple of ways:

This is a biggie in Boston (tunnels) or any city with tall, downtown buildings. The Fit's navi will continue to "dead reckon" its way even without a satellite signal. Let's say you rent a Buick Regal and when you arrive the clerk wants to put you in a Jeep. A real Jeep, not a Cherokee or whatever they call them now. Let's say when you refuse and make them go to the back of the lot to fetch what you reserved, they get ticked off. Let's say when you ask them which way you should turn when leaving the rental lot they tell you "left" when the real direction is "right." Then you wind up in one of those Boston tunnels going the wrong way into town with no earthly idea which exit to take. The Fit's navi wouldn't miss a beat. The Garmin, well, let's just say that Bitchin' Betty in the Garmin was stymied.

Second: integrated voice commands. Let's say you are an innocent country boy who thinks he can go from Salem to Cambridge and back on a Sunday morning without getting into trouble. I-93 has a bunch of exits closed and construction is going on everywhere. Neither navi will be much help but with the Honda, you can use voice to change routing to avoid interstates and zoom out to manually route yourself around obstructions. I can do that by voice without taking my eyes too much off the road. The screen is big and readable.

I'm sure there are newer Garmins that are more versatile than mine, but I call them like I see them.

Cheers.

 

Thanks! I agree that FIT navi is better from what you described

 

I think the Navi. question should be: who has the most complicated?