I find it funny that you can install a wireless CarPlay system for $900 when you can get a decently spec'd iPad Mini for under $300 which is probably faster and better. I remember a while back seeing some users installing them in their cars. I guess the main benefit of CarPlay is that you can hook it up to the car's audio controls, radio, and backup camera? Is that the only reason to get that instead of an iPad installation? My backup camera runs through my rear view mirror, I don't listen to the radio, but I would like to use hardware controls. Anyone still recommend doing this?
I was thinking about doing this as a mod on my MR2. The iPad-Mini fits it almost perfectly. I even bought my mini just for this purpose.
But, CarPlay came out about the same time, so I decided that all the work to do the mod was not worth the trouble since most of the stuff I would do would be built into CarPlay..... Or so I thought....
Having used CarPlay in my Wife's car since 2015, it has been disappointing for the most part. It is so limited, no navigation apps, missing a bunch of music apps, and the bugs can be very annoying.
I did end up installing the Alpine iLX-007 in my MR2, but I returned it not long after buying it. Not because of CP, but because I could not get the sound right on my amps.
Although this ended up being a good thing, because I didn't have much time with my Wife's CP unit yet and if I would have know what the CP experience would have really been like I would have never paid as much as I did for the headunit.