IMHO,
You pretty much have to answer a lot of these yourself. I was very pissed at first, but after messing with my F90BT, I am starting to get used to it and really like it.
- Yes, it should be able to drive all of your speakers in your Wolf. And, yes, my factory Honda Civic speakers sound much better with the 4V outputs.
- XM radio works well and sounds great.
- CD's and DVD's will play no problem.
- The iPod interface is fine -- as long as you don't have an iPhone or an iTouch (and then you won't get video). With my iPod Classic, I do have to re-connect it every once in a while after a re-start (seems random). The iTouch never had that problem (but I sold it to get video options with the Classic).
- The navigation maps are pretty darn new. There's a freeway interchange and a few roads just built in my neighborhood (open in the last 9 months) that are already in the F-series map database. And the navigation is fairly smooth. Not perfect, but I would love to find someone who says their nav system is PERFECT. I tried a back roads shortcut to my house the other day and after my second turn off the main road (all nav systems try to get you to go back to the main streets), the system nailed my "off-the-beaten-path" route.
- Navigation updates should be cheaper - or at least easier to download and load into your radio -- since you'll be loading them via SD-cards and not waiting for CD's to be mailed to you.
The things you'll have to decide about (at least until the firmware fix):
- Bluetooth blows. Forget about using it to make calls. Some people only have the problem periodically. My BT is useless.
- Phone Contact Voice recognition. The system will not recognize "Call John Smith". Which isn't that big a deal since you can't make a BT phone call that someone can hear anyway. I just disabled BT on the Pioneer and went back to my headset.
- Extremely slow startup time. Especially if you have an iPod connected. Expect at least 30-45 seconds for a normal boot-up and an additional 2-3 minutes to catalog your iPod.
- Skipping / pausing / etc. when trying to play music / video from USB hard drive / thumb drive or from SD-card. Seems like the system is running out of memory.
- My final bitch. Which is probably worse in my car because of the install angle, but the touch-screen display is very "glare-y". It is unreadable during the day if the sun is shining in on it. Especially if you're wearing sunglasses, too. There is no way to adjust it any brighter. I had a touch-screen Garmin and it was hard to see in direct sunlight, too, but this is much worse.
There are other gripes, but I have managed to either work around them or get used to them. I guess you have to decide whether you actually believe Pioneer is going to do ANYTHING about these issues. So far there's been little information.