V.6, V.8 or Zumo?

I'm currently plotting and planning my summer jaunt with Mrs. ER

Home
Dover to Calais
St.Omer
Reims
Dijon
Chamonix
Canazei
Zurich
Nancy
Reims
St. Omer
Calais to Dover
Home

Now I've set about twiddling, got basically the routes I want, then comes the quandry.

In Mapsource V.8 the maps end up being too big to have everything on my Quest. Thought then was "upgrade to a Zumo" This though comes obviously with the cost factor of the unit + installation + linking it to Autocom. The other option for a V.8 routing is to purchase a second Quest (seen them for £180 on-line) and have all the routes I need. I could also "lend" the Quest to a second member of our group for my Scotland trip so we have a couple of us with the same routes when we travel there.

OR

Use V.6 which seems to give me a lot more maps for my money. I can get all of the Euro route as well as the route down to Dover on it, and a little spare whereas V.8 I have just Europe and London area on.

Now I can assume can I that V.6 is less detailed and may not have some newer road layouts on it, I know certainly a new road near my home isn't on it. Would it however be good enough to get me round my tour without any hassle? As a staunch Yorkshireman the idea of saving money does appeal!!

Any thoughts much appreciated.

I thought I would be in a similar quandary using my Quest 1 for an imminent trip down to Spain. But in fact I can fit in all of Spain, a bit of northern Portugal, and some hefty chunks of France - using v8. If you're using m-ways/autoroutes to get you quickly to the interesting bits, then you don't really need the GPS -leave the maps off for these sections. You probably don't need the UK sections unless you're planning some really obscure route - or just go back to the old way of having a route plan taped to your tank for the UK sections and save the Quest memory for France.

I would hang fire on buying a Zumo until Garmin revise the firmware to allow route recalculation to be turned off - the price will probably have dropped a bit by then as well

Thanks Tomcat,

I've had a look at my routes in both V.6 and V.8, the V.8 ones are much more detailed when you get down to street level in the towns, I guess this is where the extra memory is used. I think Spain has less coverage too so uses less memory.

I'll be the one lost in France / Italy with the twin Quest set-up!!

Andy T