This is so bad ass!!

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Butt ugly, but maybe the cool features would outwegh that.

How about reflections and glare?

John Davies
Spokane WA
 
My 80 series is twenty years old now. Think about where computers were 20 years ago. 20 years from now, when someone breaks the screen, do you drive around with a broken screen like all the smashed smart phone screens I see? Where will someone get a mother board for twenty year old tech? You probably should buy a spare as soon as you get one of these if you tend to keep vehicles long.

The airline industry has begun ceasing buying seats with screens in the back. People are happier using their newer, and better, personal electronic devices. That, and the maintenance tail...
 
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Break the screen? Are you going to drop that screen from your pocket? That has got to be such a rare occurrence. You think airlines are deleting those screens for our benefit? lol. No they are doing it for more profit. Makes you buy their expensive in flight wifi to stream your media.

BTW, all modern airliners have all monitor cockpits. If its safe enough for them, then I think its safe enough for a Land Cruiser. Welcome to the 21st century.
 
Airlines do do everything for profit. Margins are small. They've decided it's cheaper to deliver high speed wifi now. I believe most are offering the same free movie selection they had. Now they can stream it to your personal device's larger screen. Free on my last flight. And they don't have to keep up with the coming VR or replace your screen when some teenager decides to mar the face of the video screen with his/her keys at no cost to them. Win/win.

FAA and MILSPEC flight deck screens are built to more rugged standards than iPads. I promise you this, you'd rather surf the net on a modern iPad than a twenty year old airline navigational display (heck even a modern airline display). You'd be playing Pong on that thing. Despite the build standards, the airline screens still suffer somewhat routine failures and are replaced at, what I'd consider, great cost. Industry ensures current and future maintenance support on those pieces of navigation equipment. None of that applies to a niche car screen. Not everyone's car spends 20 years without a sun roof open, coffee spills, teenager mistakes, maintenance having to get into the dash, etc.

I'm not sure I want an early 21st century screen in a car I'm driving in the middle of the 21st century. To me this is like the turbos Mercedes shoved into the intake of the G-wagon. Life beyond the length of the lease doesn't matter.
 
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Final thought, crappy radio in my 80 series now lists $2200 from the factory. It doesn't have to work, and I can go after market.

But I do get that manufacturers have to make these things now.
 
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The tech in my 100 is clunky. Not because it was horribly offensive in 2004 but because the advancement of mobile devices (ie: iPhone) are rapid and at my fingertips everyday. I can get a new iPhone every (or every other) year to stay current. I'm not able to do that with cars.

I just bought a 200 and love the newest tech features in the 2016 but they are a few years behind already and I will have to live with the fact that it won't advance like mobile devices.

I do like the new fresh features above but don't think it's worth chasing.

Something to be said for getting behind the wheel of an old 40 series with a column shift and zero tech. Maybe not for everyday driving but to get grounded now and then...
 
hobbes said:
My 80 series is twenty years old now. Think about where computers were 20 years ago. 20 years from now, when someone breaks the screen, do you drive around with a broken screen like all the smashed smart phone screens I see? Where will someone get a mother board for twenty year old tech? You probably should buy a spare as soon as you get one of these if you tend to keep vehicles long.

The airline industry has begun ceasing buying seats with screens in the back. People are happier using their newer, and better, personal electronic devices. That, and the maintenance tail...
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Airlines aren't ordering seats with screens and tech built in because of weight savings and less fuel burn as a result - period (I'm in the industry). Also how many cars being built today do NOT have a large screen or multiple screens for virtually everything from the speedometer to infotainment? 20 years from now literally no cars will have analog gauges like you have in your 80, and I'd wager it's going to take far less time than that. So the replacement of the cracked screen (how would that happen again?) is sort of moot since every car will have similar tech. Have you seen the dashboards of newer Audis with virtual cockpit? Very complex and central to the way the vehicles operate.
 
hobbes said:
My 80 series is twenty years old now. Think about where computers were 20 years ago. 20 years from now, when someone breaks the screen, do you drive around with a broken screen like all the smashed smart phone screens I see? Where will someone get a mother board for twenty year old tech? You probably should buy a spare as soon as you get one of these if you tend to keep vehicles long.

The airline industry has begun ceasing buying seats with screens in the back. People are happier using their newer, and better, personal electronic devices. That, and the maintenance tail...
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I can tell you as a guy working in large roll-outs of iOS screens...
-They break from drops, and being sat upon...and from almost NOTHING else.
-Since it would be very difficult to drop...or sit upon your dashboard...I'm convinced this is not a concern. ;)
 
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hobbes said:
To me this is like the turbos Mercedes shoved into the intake of the G-wagon. Life beyond the length of the lease doesn't matter.
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I would love to own a G wagggen

I didn't realize they were so unreliable

That's a bummer to learn

I had a D110 for a few years. Loved the thing, hated the repairs :(
 
mcgaskins said:
Airlines aren't ordering seats with screens and tech built in because of weight savings and less fuel burn as a result - period (I'm in the industry).
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Airlines understood exactly what the seats weighed before they bought them and the resulting fleet hit on fuel burn. They still put them in. Now there is a better option so the economics have changed.

ryanCA said:
I would love to own a G wagggen. I didn't realize they were so unreliable
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My comment wasn't meant to be on the GWagon reliability. It's on the cost of any longterm engine maintenance. And I agree, screen cracking won't be an issue short of an accident. I also agree that manufacturers will be driven down this road by demand, the 2016 rear DVD screens notwithstanding.
 
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I think the SUPER AUDIO TOUCH SCREEN is rad. I wish they would make them for my 2013.
 
These huge screens are an option for new LC's sold in the UAE... at first sight it looks stolen from Tesla :-). Its really huge and impressive looking.
 
SQRRRL said:
Can these be installed in a 2013 USA model? Who do I contact?
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I believe you can, it would depend on your navigation and climate control, care to drop a pic of your centre console?
 
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I believe you can, it would depend on your navigation and climate control, care to drop a pic of your centre console?
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