Wow guys, this is my new favorite bulletin board, what a wealth of information you've all shared, thanks!

It sounds like a true double-DIN setup is the way to go; in truth I did not know that all of those were available or even existed. The "coming soon" Kenwood DDX8017 seems particularly sweet, I noticed the old unit is on clearance at Crutchfield, so maybe that's good news.

I neglected to say one thing I am very very interested about (and kind of touched off this whole adventure) is iPod integration: I listen to my iPod about 80% of the time I am in the X, or whenever I am not listening to Red Sox games or CD's. I haven't really heard anything good about the Pioneer interface outside of the kid working at Best Buy, who assured me it was "sweet," so your comments do help out a lot!

Navigation would also be great, as I do not have the best sense of direction in the world, and it's kind of something I've always wanted; to drive around in a Mapquest-style sense. DVD's is secondary, as in it's somewhat important, but not crucial.

A lot of these units are very nice, but it seems the NAV unit (such as in the Kenwood) do push the price up a bit; the Crutchfield catalog has a "great offer" in which you can get the nav unit and the head for "only" $2199-something.

So allow me to elaborate: iPod connection is key, nav is highly desired, and oh yeah, I want to look cool!

When's that DDX8017 coming out?