UVO voice recognition is terrible. UVO navigation POI are terrible. UVO is incompetent at rerouting around accidents or congestion even though it has live traffic updates. But that's not unlike any other car head unit. When you plug an Android phone into UVO, you realize how superior Google assistant is and you are amazed at the POI search capability via Google Assistant. It can find directions to anything on the first attempt. And then, you can navigate with Google Maps of Waze.
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New Vehicle Owners Largely Satisfied With Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
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I have CarPlay in my VW and will never get a car without it. The navigation is miles ahead of the built in map, especially with getting real time notice of traffic and delays. On trips my husband usually has Google maps open just to compare and there is virtually no difference in navigation-maping The only way that Google beats Apple is in recognizing and displaying businesses, restaurants, etc by name and more traffic slowdown notifications. And while I find Siri to be of little use in searching and creating appointments, etc on my phone, in its more limited use in the car (locations, music) it works great.
Designed, engineered and built in the U.K.
I could be a shareholder in Apple, that doesn’t make it a British company. The majority shareholder is Indian, that’s it. Where a product is designed, engineered and built is more important than where the majority shareholder is located.
Volvo is owned by Geely, they are producing fantastic cars, designed, engineered and built in Sweden.
I’m happy with both these European companies having foreign ownership as the funding they’ve received has made their products exceptionally good. This is what happens in a globalised world.
Also JLR are a lot more reliable than they once were. Just a pretty dumb statement you’ve made.
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I agree with Apple maps, it’s pretty good these days and I have the Google maps right next to it just in case. But I want CarPlay in my vehicle, I don’t think that’s asking a lot, even if I would normally use the built in maps.
Personally I love the new infotainment system in the new RRS, had a lot of fun driving it. I’ll still probably buy one but it’s one of my only niggles with the vehicle. Well that and no USB Type-C ports.
I have an aftermarket Carplay in my Wrangler. I love it. Siri with Apple Music is awesome and hearing and answering texts without taking eyes off road is nice. I haven't had any issues with Apple Maps, but I don't travel out of town very often. I do wish it was wireless, but I have gotten used to plugging it in when I get in the vehicle.
Land Rover is known in the US as one of the most overpriced and unreliable pieces of junk. If you are European, maybe you guys ship the junk to us and have better Land Rover SUVs in Europe.
I don’t care where it’s made. I care about the quality.
Google “JD Power Land Rover” and see for yourself the quality of this British engineering wonder.
Instead of resorting to personal attacks, perhaps, you should thank me for pointing out that Land Rover may not be a good vehicle to get when you move to the US. Incidentally, welcome to America.
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Roflmao hope you aren’t comparing it to US made cars
BTW are they able to go around corners and bends yet
My family drives a mix of Volvo, Range Rover and VW (with an I-Pace on order). Aside from a few infotainment glitches the RRS has been rock solid in its reliability, as has the VW and Volvo aside from a few deer strikes. According to the latest JD UK Power Survey Landrover is ahead of both BMW and Audi. These are some of the most complex and capable road biassed vehicles money can buy, faults happen but with a 4 year US warranty I don't worry and I never own a vehicle outside of warranty. Jaguar is above average in its' reliability.
Pre-Tata Landrover vehicles are something I would never buy, but the latest generation are good solid vehicles.
The old ones are where Landrover gets that bad reputation.
Should I go for a US SUV instead? Cadiilac Escalade is about as crude as they come, Ford Explorer is cheap and nasty etc. If Landrover is so awful then whey are they having record sales? 2018 RRS is selling above MSRP with long wait times. My second choice for an SUV would be a Volvo.
http://www.jdpower.com/press-releases/2017-uk-vehicle-dependability-study
Having never tried Android Auto, I can’t comment on how it stacks up against CarPlay. But I’ve had the opportunity to try out CP twice - once for five days in the San Diego area, and once for four days in the Denver area. Both were rentals, a Hyondai Sonata hybrid (a lot better than I expected) and a Mitsubishi SUV of some kind.
I didn’t go out of my way to choose a car with CP, just discovered it after my iPhone automatically connected to it when plugged in. And I have to say I found it pretty easy to use after some initial fiddling.
I found the texting via voice, which I used quite a bit, nearly flawless. Navigation was as good as any built-in GPS system I’ve used. I like Maps’ UI, and find its traffic notifications and re-routing when necessary to be quite good. Perfect? Not quite. But then no system I’ve ever used has been perfect. And I don’t expect it. In the past, I’ve been steered wrong by every system I’ve used at least on occasion.
Siri was easy to understand and played music from my iPhone accurately, with one exception. Again, not perfect, but pretty darned good.
I have a ‘14 Dodge, and kinda wish it had CP. So for Nav I can use my iphone, which is fine (especially since it integrates nicely with my Watch). But I’m going to update the Uconnect system also, as I think it has a pretty good UI as well. Unfortunately the map update process for ‘12 to ‘14 is, as I’ve heard described, draconian.
I didn’t go out of my way to choose a car with CP, just discovered it after my iPhone automatically connected to it when plugged in. And I have to say I found it pretty easy to use after some initial fiddling.
I found the texting via voice, which I used quite a bit, nearly flawless. Navigation was as good as any built-in GPS system I’ve used. I like Maps’ UI, and find its traffic notifications and re-routing when necessary to be quite good. Perfect? Not quite. But then no system I’ve ever used has been perfect. And I don’t expect it. In the past, I’ve been steered wrong by every system I’ve used at least on occasion.
Siri was easy to understand and played music from my iPhone accurately, with one exception. Again, not perfect, but pretty darned good.
I have a ‘14 Dodge, and kinda wish it had CP. So for Nav I can use my iphone, which is fine (especially since it integrates nicely with my Watch). But I’m going to update the Uconnect system also, as I think it has a pretty good UI as well. Unfortunately the map update process for ‘12 to ‘14 is, as I’ve heard described, draconian.
You missed his point... he buys reliable cars. Maserati is the Landrover of today. If you manage to find huger pieces of Fiat crap than that... perhaps it’s just labeled Fiat.
Djeez... that I couldn’t hear this from the tone of your writing. I was reading in smart invert mode, perhaps that was why...
I just bought a 2018 Honda CRV with Apple Car play. My goodness... this does seem to be the future. I love having my iPhone integrated into my car. This is great technology and I hope they bring it further in coming years.
