It might be just me but it seems counter productive to not support your "Halo" car after it has served it's purpose. The message GM is sending us is loud and clear... you bought our most expensive car and for this we are happy, but to expect us to support you after the purchase with such a small thing as a nav disc update, you must be kidding. The car being out of production means absolutely nothing, other than provide an excuse.
I really disagree that low production numbers are a problem. The opposite is true. Nav discs require software from Denso, data bases for the digitalized road network, and updated data for the POI's. This is the same data with the exception of the Denso software that they use in other current nav systems. This set of data is probably billed as a cost/unit. Fewer units equal lower actual cost. I very much doubt that the data needed to update a disc is purchased at a flat rate one time cost, it makes much more sense to charge users for each unit used.
All GM needs to do is spend a few dollars and have a programmer create the appropriately formatted data set and have some discs made. All that needs to change is the database data, updated to current street configurations and POI's. At $200 per disc it would not take long to recover expenses.
I am not asking for any change in the functionality of the system at all, what we bought is what we should expect, not updates to the latest and greatest graphics and tricks that newer systems use. But keeping the system useful and operational is not asking for much. A person with a 2009 XLR has a disc with 2007 data (discs are always based on date from the previous year) and that's all they can get for a car that's two model years old! If you happen to own an Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, or other cars with nav built in the updates are available for cars that in some cases are ten years old, and the nav system in newer cars is completely different.
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