I have Tomtom and Garmin products, portables and a built-in, and as a general statement the Tomtoms are a generation behind in the user interface, but most often superior in routing.
My Garmin has led me on local (‘interesting’) tours of the city I would never have known about, and sometimes I think they have a royalty deal with the petrol companies.
That being written my Tomtom was routing me from Toronto CA to Kalamazoo MI and after we crossed the river into the USA it inexplicably directed to leave the Interstate highway and wanted to make a U-turn back over the bridge to Canada! I reckon that one would have been worth 50 Garmin ‘curious’ routings on its own if I was clueless enough to follow it. But here in Melbourne the Tomtom wins every time.
Tomtom sells a model for about $300 (GO520) with ‘lifetime’ world maps included. That enhances the irritation of the auto companies slugging $350 each for sometimes years old maps.
