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It's for the Motorhome, and will need to be good for Europe, and not expensive...
What mobile phone do you have?
Ive started using google maps sat nav on my Android and it works brilliantly and is free. Drawback is that map downloads requires a data connection which obviously can be expensive abroad.
Prior to that I had CoPilot installed on my PDA and that too was very good even on a relatively small screen. European prices arent too bad either http://www.alk.eu.com/buynow/copilot/
this needs to be installed on your GPS phone though.
The best I've used was tomtom on my old O2 XDA. Wife has basic Garmin which is okay. I bought a cheapie binatone when my xda died. Do not buy the binatone!!
I'd go for tomotom any time.
I downloaded ndrive for my iPhone as was on offer for £5 now I hate sat nav but this us excellent warns you of speed cameras the lot. No idea if it does Europe though.
TomTom all the way:
Just checked £23 for ndrive europe.
TomTom is the best, without question, but you pay a premium for that.
CoPilot is bargainous if you've got an Android phone, it's 25 quid or thereabouts for a full offline SatNav.
Google Maps Navigation (Android again) is free, but needs a constant data connection, which will cost you hundreds if not thousands to run outside the UK unless you can wangle a specific dataplan that covers it.
Personally, if I needed a product that I wanted to use in anger and rely on 100%, I'd pony up for a stand-alone TomTom. Looks like they come in at around £140 rrp.
Tomtom classic - found some micro hamlets in darkest France.
Personally I prefer Garmin to Tom Tom. I had a Nuvi (highish end one) that was great, but abuse eventually killed it (it got belted by a flying pipe whilst cornering too enthusiastically... a few times).
Replaced that with a Garmin Zumo 660 (no, not cheap - but it does get plugged into the motorbike too) which is essentially a robust version of the latest generation - mate with a Tom Tom Rider 2 is considering selling it and moving to Garmin as well as it is so much more intuitive to use. I would find the equivalent car unit to the Zumo 660 and go with that - full Euro maps, the Lane Assist is handy, Traffic Master works well on it too... it's spot on!