Blaupunkt Casablanca CD52

Advantages: Excellent radio both at FM & AM
Disadvantages: Tape player (No CD)

...this blaupunkt car radio has an excellent radio front end at both FM & (mostly) AM! Its ability to receive AM (MW) radio broadcasts with the usual very short FM whip antennas that are commonly found at newer cars, is a real plus! And the sound on AM isn't bad at all. It does have a good AM IF bandwidth filter probably, that allow you to listen good sounded AM stations, with a quality (at least an AM quality that most newer radios doesn't provide for the forgotten ? MW band), while keeping the selectivity needed for first adjacent channel intereference out. A better noise blanker filter, or a faster AGC wil help a little at city terrains where the manmade static noises are higher! For FM the sound is good (take in account the overcompressed FM modulated signals that most stations have now) and its sensitivity is good enough to get... Read review

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Advantages: An idea if you really don't know the area.
Disadvantages: Limited, outdated mapping, not so easy to use

...In our brand new Fiesta, delivered this month, the Blaupunkt TravelPilot comes fitted in a unit combined with the radio. To try this system out, over a period of three weeks, and a total of about 600 miles, entirely within my home county of West Yorkshire, i ran the TravelPilot alongside my own local knowledge of the area built up over 17 years of driving around the area. To enter a destination it is necessary to go through a menu and a series of entries not wholly unlike entering a text message on a mobile phone. There is a form of predictive texting, which can be quite useful. The problem I found, though, was that before I could find the way to, say, Huddersfield Police Station I needed to know what road it is in. There seems to be no provision for places like hospitals or police stations as destinations. Back to the Ato... Read review

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Advantages: Clear verbal instructions, very easy to use,dashboard intergrated makes it less "nickable" and a detachable facia, can do miles or KM
Disadvantages: Does not give you idea of where you are, eg if your near points of interest, cant review whole route, so you cant check it out on a map

...I bought this system with a 5 disc cd system, the whole lot came in at a whopping £600. However, that aside, it was fantastic, we did a 3500 mile trip around France, Spain, Italy, switzerland and UK in 3 weeks. HELGA as we called our travelpilot, did not let us down once. Your can enter a postcode of anywhere in europe and she takes you to the door, you can get her to find you the nearest petrol station, very useful as I have a Total fuel card, she has useful and maybe useless information all embedded on the memory, she tells you about toll roads, speed cameras and with the TMC option - traffic congestion, then she jumps into life and wow finds a way around the lot. Dare you take the option to not take motorways and she will take you down some of the most picturesque and isolated roads you will ever go down. We thought she had gone... Read review

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