Garmin Drive™ 53 GPS Navigator, High-Resolution Touchscreen, Simple On-Screen Menus and Easy-to-See Maps, Driver Alerts

I owned Garmin GPS units when they first came out, twenty years ago. I was an early adopter, used it for work and personal travel. When I met my wife in the summer of 2008, she had a Tom-Tom GPS, she preferer my Garmin, so I got her one. When we replaced our cars they had built in GPS. Last summer my car was totaled and I had to replace it. I bought a newer version of the same car, but it didn't have a GPS.I didn't think that I'd miss it, but I did. Recently I went on an animal rescue mission, I bought this new Garmin for the trip. 5,300 miles, fourteen states, the Garmin never left me down. My only regret is that I didn't purchase one with a larger screen. But that is my own fault. I highly recommend.

The GPS arrived earlier than expected and works perfectly. This is a later version of the one I purchased 15 years ago for my Tacoma pickup. I has many helpful features including traffic alerts, restaurants, hospitals, etc, I use it for local trips and along with WAYZ for longer trips, since my older truck has no built in navigation system. I find that for traffic delays and rerouting the WAYZ works better than the navigation system in my other newer vehicles.

Most people use on board GPS in their cars, unless you have an older car. Then they use their phones, which to me is silly.I wanted a stand alone GPS without having to keep my $40 Trac phone in a cradle, hooked up to a charger. Looks like Garmin is the last company to make such a thing. This is very much like my older Garmin that I have used for well over a decade. Oddly it came with no instructions, they are built in and menu driven so you have to turn it on. Update it right away, the screen says it will take hours (took about five minutes for software and map updates). All GPS have a tendency to take you convoluted routes, Garmin does as well. I haven't run this on the road yet, but EVERY GPS/Phone or whatever will occasionally be a bit slow and turn into my mother in law "you should have turned back there". I purchased the 7 inch screen which is small for some, I prefer seeing more of the road. I'm very happy with it.

So far so good a little had getting connected for updates which seem common.

Great product and works just as it should. My only issue is that I thought it was the bigger screen.

i use this as well as my own gps in the car and it is very accurate if you need a gps for navigating directions get this one

It is ready to use and was easy to set up.

Works great and the touch screen is accurate and sensitive. The only problem is, even after being updated, any location I look up it searches 100+ miles away when the address I'm looking up is only a 5 minute drive away. I have to go into the settings each time and set the town I'm in and for some reason it won't update my location. I don't really use it unplugged so I can't speak on battery life. The display is crystal clear though and is great for direction.