#Incontrol touch pro turn on real time traffic driver#

It's also the more appealing move, bringing that 12.3-inch digital driver display, wider 10-inch central display and a boost audio offering too, as well as opening the door for a lot more pro features. This is likely to be the biggest decision for XE, XF or F-Pace buyers. Jaguar bundles a lot up into the big packages, with the major decision being whether to jump in and take the Touch Pro option. Jaguar's premium position means that, even at a core level, you have a lot of options. There's also to option to have split screen at additional cost.

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Those Meridian sound system are fantastic and we've been really impressed by what we've heard from them.įor those wanting TV in the car, it's available in the XF, XJ and F-Pace but you'll have to have specified Touch Pro and you'll have to watch it through that front display when the car is standing still. The Jaguar XJ again has a slightly different arrangement, getting a 250W Jaguar sound system as standard, rather than the 80W standard version, again with options to move up to the Meridian systems.

It's actually a nice move as it feels like you're getting a lot more for your money than elsewhere where you might be asked to fork out a lot of cash for an audio upgrade. There are a range of sound systems available across the Jaguar models and these are in part tied to the whether you have the Touch or Touch Pro system. The satnav system is simple enough to use and we've found it fairly reliable in operation with turn-by-turn instructions and postcode entry, although it's the Touch Pro enhanced with Connect Pro that offers a little more, including real time traffic and the ability to arrive at your destination and continue on foot or public transport using the same app.Īrguably, in this case, something like Google Maps would serve you proud, offering this functions and avoiding the need to upgrade. Of course, as we've said, in the majority of cars, once you jump to Touch Pro you also have the digital driver display, with the option of big 3D mapping there, which is a real advantage. There are different grades, however, with the 'enhanced' Pro navigation coming with Touch Pro. In each case, tapping the big on-screen button then takes you into that section, whereafter you have obvious buttons to press. Thereafter you can swipe to other sections of the system to access other things, like driving data, a browser, InControl apps, cameras and other bits spread over the next pages.

#Incontrol touch pro turn on real time traffic series#

It uses a series of pages that you can scroll through, rather like a smartphone, with the display divided into four sections on the main home screen, giving you direct access to music, navigation, phone and climate controls. In reality, as this is a touch-controlled system, the main approach is to touch the even bigger soft-button sections on the display. Hitting a big physical button to jump to the satnav section is perhaps easier than finding the exact icon across the bottom of the screen which is a lot smaller, but the system isn't really designed to be used like that, so you could say that it has a belt and braces approach and those buttons duplicate some of the controls unnecessarily. When moving to Touch Pro these physical buttons are essentially replicated in a digital strip along the bottom of the display. In operation the systems are very much the same, with the physical buttons of Touch providing quick access to the major sections of the system - home, music, navigation, telephone and some other features, like parking assistance or the car's cameras. All the displays are fixed in place, there are no covers, flipping, retracting into the dash or anything else.

#Incontrol touch pro turn on real time traffic upgrade#

Jaguar uses touch for all its central displays and as Jaguar is a premium car marque, even the lowest spec model (Jaguar XE SE) gets a fully-featured system, with a full run of upgrade options as we mentioned above.

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As we said, to get this display you'll have to opt for the Touch Pro system and the price of that upgrade will depend on the model and trim level of the car you're buying - and the full digital driver's display is not an option on the F-Type, where you stick to the sporty dials only.