Reading Festival or Rocking at Glastonbury –Garmin will get you there

The Park Position Recall function is standard on the nuvi 865T

Garmin have come out with a free download for the 2009 festival season.  This is available as  an additional Points of Interest (POI) from the Garmin website and has the festival listings up to the end of September.  And it will also help you  to  [...]

Garmin Nuvi 865T on Promotion

If you order before the 22nd of May, you can save £100 on a Garmin nuvi 865T, a hefty 25% saving! This sat nav has all the features you would expect from top line unit, including Lane Assist, voice controlled sat nav and phone functions, Bluetooth, FM transmitter, Safety camera warning and real time traffic [...]

Strange Sat Nav Facts

Elvis or Pacino… the choice is yours!

A survey carried out for Motoring.co.uk, recently, produced some pretty strange results.  It found that 56% of car sat nav users interviewed had shouted at their device, while a massive 79% had actually had conversations with them!  Furthermore, 20% of women drivers had found themselves in a field having [...]

Garmin Add To The Nuvi Range

Garmin Nuvi 1370

Garmin will be adding the 1200 and 1300 series to the nuvi range later this year, probably around June.
One of the very neat features of the range will be the introduction of optional CityXplorerTM content to help you find your way around by public transport in selected cities (although we don’t know quite [...]

More Sat Nav Tips: Driving on the Continent

Having dealt with France in February, I thought some more tips for using car sat navs on the Continent might be useful.  It would appear that the general rule of thumb is that the use of Radar detectors is prohibited with a range of fines/ confiscation.  This is certainly the case in Austria, Belgium, Italy, [...]

Free Lifetime Map Updates With nuvi 860T and 865T In February

Free Lifetime Map updates with Garmin nuvi 860T

Garmin have announced that they will provide a free copy of nuMaps Lifetime for every nuvi 860T and 865T purchased and registered before the ned of February.  The nuMaps Lifetime subscription provides quarterly map updates for the useful life of the product and is worth £99.99.
 
This really is [...]

More Sat Nav Tips: Driving in France

I have been asked if you can use car sat navs when driving in France, and to be quite honest, I didn’t know the answer. However I have found that the French Embassy have told the AA that Radar detectors are illegal:
“Under articles L413-2 and R413-15 of the French ‘Code [...]

Attention Motorcyclists! The Garmin Zumo 660 Available Soon

Garmin Zumo 660 Available Soon

I have heard from distribution sources, that the Garmin Zumo 660 will be available around the beginning of April and you will be able to get it  for about £350.  The Zumo range is the biking equivalent of the Garmin nuvi range, but is equally at home on two wheels as [...]

Save Fuel With The Garmin Ecoroute Option

Garmin Nuvi 205WT

If you have a Garmin Nuvi car sat nav, you can down load a new function called “Ecoroute”.  This will provide units like the Garmin Nuvi 205WT with a new “less fuel” route option in addition to the “shorter distance” and “faster time” options.
 
The Ecoroute function can also monitor your fuel usage and [...]

More Sat Navs Functions: GPS Speed Camera Locator’s

If you have a problem keeping to the legal speed limit, there are a number of products which could well help you keep your drivers license clean. There are, of course, a number of car sat navs such as Snooper, Tom Tom and Garmin. There are however, a range of dedicated safety camera location products [...]