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Pioneer Europe: This July, Pioneer will be releasing an exclusively-designed navigation and multimedia centre for a range of VW, Skoda or Seat vehicles: the AVIC-F9110BT.

As well complementing the interior of your vehicle, the NavGate AVIC-F9110BT delivers more efficient and pleasurable journeys through comprehensive navigation capabilities, high-quality and versatile entertainment and convenient and safe communications.

The stylish unit is shaped and manufactured from specialist materials to seamlessly integrate with a wide range of cars from the VW Group.

Behind the sleek façade of the high-resolution 5.8-inch WVGA touch panel is seriously powerful navigation technology:

• The high-speed 2GB flash memory quickly plots your course across
• 44 European countries using built-in TeleAtlas maps spanning
• 9 million kms of road and including 1.5million Points-of-Interest ( POI) with famous landmarks shown in 3D.
• Voice guidance provides route instructions and applies Text-to-Speech (TTS) functionality to safely relay traffic information – informing you of events based on TMC bulletins – and suggest new routes.
• Clever features also assure accurate guidance in areas where GPS coverage is compromised.

At the heart of the NavGate AVIC-F9110BT is a powerful processor which enables navigation and entertainment features to be used simultaneously .

The NavGate AVIC-F9110BT is compatible with 18 VW, Skoda and Seat cars as follows (an original VW, Skoda and Seat accessory may be required to fit the unit):

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NaviGadget: European car maker Seat is offering a new breed of GPS navigation system which is DVD based but also comes with a 30GB hard disk drive. This new add-on will set you back €2115 – way above what you would pay for an after market GPS navigation system.The device is actually built by Siemens and the mapping data comes from Navteq. The new sat nav systems is available for order as an option on all Leon, Altea, Altea XL, Altea Freetrack 4 and Toledo models.

Seat’s new GPS navigation systems feature a large, 6.5″ touch screen and it also doubles as a CD/DVD player capable of handling various file formats including CD-A, MP3, WAV and WMA. On top of that, it can read from most mainstream media types such as CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW etc.

With these DVD-based GPS navigation systems what comes to mind usually is if you can listen to music or watch something while navigating. With Seat, this is possible but you’ll have to store the whole mapping data on to the HDD. However you’ll still have 20GB of space left for your other files. Oh, and about watching DVD’s on your console: Only when the vehicle is stationary.

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The Register: Gamers seeking what could be the ultimate accessory – at least that’s how it’s branded – can now save themselves hefty transatlantic shipping costs: US company Ultimate Game Chair’s Renegade seat is now available from a UK supplier.

The Renegade is designed to be connected to any of the major gaming platforms, from PCs to consoles, which feed its headrest-mounted stereo speakers and trigger the under-seat, “ground effect” lighting.

The chair also incorporates 12 vibration motors, all synchronised with in-game action, to give players that ‘I’m actually here’ feeling.

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Het Financieele Dagblad: Dutch car navigation systems maker TomTom will deliver semi-integrated sat nav systems to Spanish carmaker SEAT, TomTom said yesterday.

The agreement between the two companies is exclusive and covers the whole of Europe.

The systems to be delivered are based on the TomTom GO 710 navigation tool and will be available for SEAT’s Altea, Tolede and Leon models at prices starting from €749.

The announcement follows news of TomTom’s exclusive supply agreement with Citroen earlier this month.

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