[Jademonkey]

My vote would be for the alpine. I currently have the 7894 in my car, and I love it. It works very well and has many features. I considered the pioneer as well, but the Organic Display they use for their display just did not appeal to me. The screensaver kind of thing on those gets very tiring after awhile, and pioneer seems to have a delay on their mp3 playback. Im not sure if that has been fixed now, but when I looked at them, there was a noticable, and very annoying delay between mp3s.

My suggestion is to find somewhere where you can test each one. Bring your own cd or two(one with mp3s) and just test each one, look at the features etc.