Which Sat NavTesting

EricWB · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jan 31, 2007 Posts: 310

I have just received my December edition of the Consumer Magazine Which. Once again they have tested sat navs but because of ongoing changes in technology they have re-evaluated the way they test them.

This seems to mean this time round the three best buys are now all from Garmin. Once upon a time it was the other way around with TomTom always winning the accolades, perhaps TT have taken their eyes off the ball.

The Garmin devices score 73, 70 & 68 percent, whilst the only TomTom is in fourth place with 66 percent. After that its all some of the lesser known names, but this may just mean they did not test any of the other TT devices this time not that they are so bad they dont get in the list.

In fact looking online at the complete picture Garmin is top with one model at 75 percent then three TT devices at 73, 73, & 72 percent so it seems even Which cant get things sorted out either.

BigPerk · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject:

I've been a member of Which? for many years, on and off (off at the moment). My feeling is that they are a great guide where you are buying something that you haven't got the time/expertise/experience to evaluate products from scratch yourself (though I would personally say only to help narrow initial choices).

But if you have a special 'interest' in something, you may well not agree 100% with their conclusions - for one thing they are often not quite uptodate as their testing/publication periods can be quite extended - eg, their recommendations some while back included ViaMichelin just after it had jumped market; and as you say, they couldn't test all the promising devices I was aware of then either.

So I would say, go with them if you CAN'T spare the time, but don't trust them blindly if you CAN.

(Of course, I do know they also do other good work as well on the legal, etc advice side)
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