Enterprise will offer Garmin GPS

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Garmin® to Supply Enterprise Rent-A-Car With Industry-Leading GPS Navigators

OLATHE, Kan., Jan. 10, 2006 -- Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. , today announced that Enterprise Rent-A- Car, North America's largest rental car company, will begin offering a customized version of Garmin's popular StreetPilot® c340 automotive navigator as an attractively priced satellite navigation service to its customers at selected airport rental locations.

Garmin's portable automotive navigation units will be rolled out in January at 45 Enterprise airport locations across the United States. By the end of March, Garmin's StreetPilot navigators will be available at Enterprise's top 100 airport locations.

The unit gives travelers turn-by-turn voice-prompted directions to virtually anywhere in the U.S., Canada, or Puerto Rico. Pre-loaded road maps of the entire U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico include addresses and nearly six million points of interest -- including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and tourist attractions.

Map data is provided by NAVTEQ -- recognized as a world leader in premium-quality, highly accurate mapping.

More than 5,800 neighborhood and airport Enterprise rental locations are also loaded into the database, so returning a vehicle is easy.

Garmin's StreetPilot® c340 is the only navigator available in rental cars with a text-to-speech feature that speaks the name of the next turn ("turn right on Main Street") instead of simply calling out distances ("turn right in 500 feet"). The feature typically found only on premium navigation systems is particularly useful in congested, unfamiliar urban areas.

Enterprise plans to offer the units for $7.95 per day -- one of the lowest in-car navigation rates in the rental car industry, and the lowest among national companies.

Source: Auto Channel

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That's great news, thanks for posting! I really like Enterprise's service, so I try to use them exclusively when I rent cars.

The GPS addition will be a HUGE assett when exploring new cities and buffing LA City!

Can't wait to try it out!