^^ this. Brought my car from '08 to '17 in one evening.

Sure if you want to spend 10% of your car's value on an unrecoverable upgrade. It doesn't cost $500 unless you want to forego all the standard options. Sounds great but it's a poor investment unless you're keeping the car for five more years or more.

It's truly a matter of opinion in that regard. My car is certainly worth more than that and the investment was maybe 5% of the cars value? Regardless, it really makes the car more enjoyable, since you don't have to worry about CCC issues. In terms of the options, as long as your car is equipped from factory with Navi, this is truly plug and play with no additional features needed to spend money on-- plus you can easily remove and resell it when you trade your car in.

Either way, do whats best for you. I don't plan on keeping the car 5+ years, but am glad it is up to par with more modern car systems with the addition of this feature.

2015 was the newest that I could find.

Definitely worth the $$. Everything is reversible and you DO NOT need navi for this unit to work. My X5 came with the smallest screen, no navi and it was still a plug-and-play.

This. However, non navi cars will require a little more work getting them installed. Still all reversible.

Really? What were the extra steps? Besides throwing the GPS antenna in the back of the unit.

What does reversible have to do with it? Pretty much everything is. Putting in a new head unit doesn't make it a new car. It's $1k for the unit with all the features I currently have. To each their own I guess. I'll upgrade the car before I spend $1k on a HU for an old car.

What features?? You don't have to buy all new "features", the factory things you have can pretty much be plugged into the Android Unit.

I know other people would rather pay up then suffer the slowness of certain things...

LOL. It's 500 dollars period. No one ever said $1000. I sense a bit of hostility in your responses. Maybe you need a new car and are just using this site to convince yourself... in the meantime many of us are enjoying the new tech for the remaining time we keep these vehicles.