A friend of mine drives a BMW X1 which not only has a touchscreen, but also a touchpad next to the handbrake το "draw" letters on it with your finger, instead of typing letters on the screen. The touchpad is of course a gimmick, only recognises English letters, and it's even slower than touching the...

The maps have a lot of depth, traffic information (connecting to the internet via mobile hotspot), and points of interest, and some things even exceed the navigation of Google Maps (e.g. showing you a visual depiction of exiting a motorway, road signs, lanes, tunnels, etc). Especially for points of ...

Me too, I still find myself looking at it as if it were the first time. It’s such a great car. Btw, I use the Hold function on almost every trip, it’s one of those little things that make the drive in the city more comfortable.

OK thanks. I don’t think we’re missing out on much...

How is the new car coming along for you?

Thanks. So this is another manual?

What about audio alerts?

As far as I know, when I switch to reverse gear the camera comes on but no audible alerts about obstacles etc can be heard. Is there anything I'm missing? Also, I cannot find anywhere in the manual what distance the lines indicate, etc.

There are some workarounds to 'approximate' the CarPlay experience. I'm assuming the main reason why you want CarPlay is for Google Maps. Otherwise, the phone app and SMS on Toyota Touch 2 with Go work reasonably well. Siri works too and you don't need to press any buttons (it works even if your car...

So unlikely to be a software update for Touch 2 in Europe then.

I don't know what "2019 C-HR" means exactly but in the US they now advertise Apple CarPlay compatibility: https://www.toyota.com/c-hr/ebrochure/ The car doesn't seem to be redesigned in any way but it's a bummer that I only bought mine last month and it doesn't support CarPlay. Toyota Touch 2 with G...

Is this an optional feature? Where does it project from? Had my C-HR for 5 weeks now and never saw anything like this.