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CarPlay becoming pivotal purchase priority for new car buyers
Check out the upgrades from 4Dtech. Not cheap but totally worth it. I installed Sync 3 in my 2013 Lincoln Mkz and love it. Light years ahead of the old system. QNX based and fast. The latest upgrade to version 3.0 fixes my biggest gripe with the original Sync 3. It used to take forever for Carplay to "activate" while Sync did its thing on startup. Now, 5 seconds and boom. Carplay is going and my podcast is playing before the car is in reverse. Having lived with the old system for 4 years and just having it again in a loaner, treat yourself to the upgrade. It doesn't void your warranty at all. You will thank yourself dailysflocal said:
I bought the 2015 Edge Sport (bright gold) in 2016. As much as I love the car, the only one sticking point with it was the lack of CarPlay. FordSync2 is such a bastard child of Ford, and it's no surprise it's created by Microsoft. My mom purchased the 2016 Edge which has CarPlay and the difference is night and day.friedmud said:Just bought a new car in November.
CarPlay was a must: but you should know that not all CarPlay screens are equal either. In my testing the Ford implementation was way beyond the competition: biggest, clearest screen, most responsive and best sounding.
I ended up with a fully loaded Ford Edge Sport - and I can definitely say that the seamless CarPlay played into that decision (as well as the car being all around excellent).
On a recent trip I had a rental car that was a 2017 Toyota Highlander: and I couldn’t even believe how dated everything was. There wasn’t even a “Siri Button”: just some dumb built-in voice assistant that was terrible. Everything about the car was rubbish: but by far the “infotainment” system was the worst part.
Pretty funny to see Toyota scrambling to put CarPlay in their cars now.Lucky you. There's actually an upgrade by 3rd party that essentially installed a 2016 Edge unit into my car, but the price is over $2K and will most likely void my warranty. The market is definitely there. Ford did a disservice to here to prior owners. If Ford comes out with a Ford-stamped CarPlay upgrade for my year, I'd jump on it.
