I’m thinking of getting a 2012 Hyundai Sonota with the nav package. If you have one, and you plug your iPod/iPhone into it, I’d like to know how that works.
Specifically, in my case I have a lot of playlists and also a number of podcasts. So my typical pattern is that I’ll go into podcasts and listen to an episode of one of them, then maybe go into some playlist and listen to that for a while, then maybe back into podcasts to listen to an episode of a different one, then into some other playlist, etc.
So I’m wondering how easy that kind of iPod navigation is on the Sonota’s touchscreen.
And of course, any other good or bad things you care to share about the nav package or the car as a whole, I’d be interested.
I don’t have the nav package, and I don’t have an iPod/iPhone. What I have is the stock 2011 Sonata and an Android phone.
When the Android phone is plugged into the USB jack, the stored MP3s are played over the stereo and song navigation can be controlled using the steering wheel. Podcasts and other music services like Pandora will play via either Bluetooth or the auxiliary jack. I had a portable DVD player hooked up for a road trip this weekend - it sounded great through just the auxiliary input.
I have the cable for the iPod hookup and have used it for my wife’s Touch. It works fine for song navigation as described above. I do not know how the nav touchscreen works, but I doubt you will have a problem - Hyundai seems to have thought this through.
Best car I have ever owned. I would strongly advise getting the six-speed manual transmission. It has been a blast to drive.
Thanks, I appreciate the response. I’m going to be getting the turbo with automatic, which is a rocket. I’ve been driving manual transmission cars for thirty years, and for the most part really enjoy the experience. But I’m at the point where the hassle of clutching and shifting in commute traffic is overriding the fun of a manual at other times.