Of course, those dedicated navigators still offer some features you can't (yet) get elsewhere, such as the Darth Vader or Dennis Hopper voices for TomTom and downloadable vehicles for the Garmin Nuvi.

Garmin's Unified Cabin concept shown at CES 2025 could be implemented in future connected cars. The automotive buzzword at CES 2025 in Las Vegas this year was “SDV.” That’s “software ...

introducing scalable domain controller capabilities through a single Garmin control module. The solution offers immersive entertainment across vehicle displays and supports software-defined ...

but Garmin has done a lot to improve things over recent years, so it’s now a a very close race. Perhaps most important of all is to make sure your vehicle has an easy way to power the sat nav de ...