Ecce: The face behind the voice behind the Garmin GPS navigating system.
It’s tempting to buy one, just to listen to her dulcet tones, knowing that I could turn an attractive blond off if I chose to.
I’m an old hand at that sort of thing.
(H/T to occasional reader Rivetjoint for the link)
Yowzers!!! Wait till I tell the wife I know the great looking blonde inside the Garmin she has in her car (and my beloved blonde would get lost in a locked closet, sad to say)
Garmin is truly missing an advertising opportunity. Put the face on the box.
Does it have an add on module that compliments you on your flying skills (whether or not you have any)? That would amp sales even more.
Probably an upgrade from “Bitchin Betty” I suspect…
Awesome! After much procrastination, review analysis, comparison shopping and down selection I just this week bought my lovely bride the Garmin 255W. A marvelous machine, full of features and function for less than a couple hunnerd.
And it comes with a blonde sheila in the box!
Better’n Larry the cable guy voice option, “hey dickweed, I sed turn left and whot-knot, yer as lost as a skinny feller at a country buffet, thatz funny raht there, I don’t care who ya are….”
Byron, are you sure that’s wise?
My wife is utterly certain that the ring in my nose is firmly in place
She’s also certain that I’m one of those old fashioned fellas that understands completely that married means married.
What I really like about the Garmin devices is the ability to use them to get around traffic situations when I run up on slow or dead stop traffic. I like hearing ‘recalculating’ and knowing the face behind the voice is a plus.
She sure is easy on the eyes.
Hmm, I will have to listen to her on my GPS when next I use it.
I am tempted to switch from my TomTom, however, waiting for a pic of the TomTom girl before I decide….
She isn’t my cup of tea, and BC “thatz funny “
All I can say is…. wow.
Good thing I already got me a good-lookin’ blonde!
I must have twins…
I like the way she says, “Arriving at destination.” She sounds so pleased with herself. I also don’t mind hearing recalculating. It usually means I messed up and she is going to help me recover.
Navig8r–I don’t mind hearing “recalculating” in either Brit or Aussie accent. The American voice makes “recalculating” sound surly–”recalculating-because-you-messed-up, you idiot.”
I knew it! All those sultry female voices on different freqs in the Gulf were really coming from bombshell blondes and not ugly Betty’s.
I picked up a Garmin 265WT last month, and was working my way through the various voices, as I didn’t like the default voice. When I got to Karen’s voice, my three-year-old cast her vote saying, “She sounds friendlier than the others”, and so Karen-from-Australia has now become the GPS voice in our household.
It doesn’t hurt that reading about her in the piece makes her seem even friendlier, either.