[Mark in Baltimore]

I have had two Pioneer AVIC 5000 NEX units in two different cars and really like them. The model I bought has built-in NAV, but I don't believe I ever used it; Apple CarPlay is the sh*t and works wonderfully.

For multiple addresses, just copy and paste as many as you need in your smart phone calendar location bar. In the car, you can click on the address, and Apple Maps starts directions. It's really sweet. If you don't have the address in your calendar, the search feature in the maps will make suggestions if the address is one someone's email or text.

Text messaging and checking voice mail is terrific. You can access Siri by pressing the home button.

I mostly use Pandora and don't use Spotify, iHeart Radio, etc. It works fine most of the time but can be a bit buggy. Supposedly, this is a Pandora issue.

All of this means that the phone needs to be hardwired with a lightning cable to the receiver, so that can be clunky if you have an auxiliary battery that you need to remove.

That said, the Pioneer in the Miata stopped booting up a few weeks ago, so it's in for servicing. I think it's about $200 for a tech to fix it. If I had to do it over again, I'd save the money and get a receiver that didn't have a CD player and didn't have built-in NAV. Before I sent the Pioneer for servicing, I looked on Crutchfield's site to see if I was better off buying a new one. It would have cost me more to install a new one (not going to do it myself) even though the current units are relatively inexpensive.

I love Apple CarPlay so much that, when I was on the hunt for a Macan, I took the 2015 and 2016 models off of my search and concentrated entirely on 2017s with the new PCM and Apple CarPlay. Really, really happy I made that choice.