I've now pretty much concluded that nobody will ever come out with a better car stereo of the kind - the emphasis now is all about portable device integration, which is mostly done poorly.
Yes.
I've been two years without it and there's no way I can adapt to anything else. Evrey button I press on my Alpine X100, or my Parrot 9200, I can't help thinking "this would've been so much faster, effective, versatile, better, easier if done on my empeg". And, the iPod in the glove box crashes e very now and then and I need to pull it out and reset it. So poorly implemented (and yet considered among the best iPod receivers ever...).