Article: Navigation systems increasingly available through aftermarket.(Auto Weekend)

Cutting-edge technology usually takes a while to trickle down to the masses.

Anti-lock brakes and multiport fuel injection are two examples of features that are now standard equipment on most new cars and trucks sold today - but that were unavailable to all save the very affluent before about 1985.

Currently, satellite navigational systems such as those offered by General Motors and Acura likewise remain limited in their availability - at least insofar as original equipment goes.

However, the aftermarket has an alternative: Philips Car Systems' CARiN 520 interactive navigational computer and display monitor that can be installed in any ...

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