I am planning to purchase a Mazda 3 soon. When I visited the dealer, the sales person did not know much about the iPod/iPhone integration and could only show me a short demo on a sales video.

Has anyone here purchased it? Does it work well? Can you control everything through the radio and steering wheel? Does all the info display on the display?

Does the cord come out through the glove box? Can you have the glove box closed and have the device mounted on a dash mount or will that "crush" the wire? How long is the cord?

Any "gotchas" here with how it works? I have a GPS application on my phone which I would be using at the same time, which is why I would need to mount it.

I have read that you can use plain old Bluetooth to play music through the system. Is that true? If you use that, does that prevent you from receiving/making phone calls through Bluetooth?

My research has found limited information and many of the tidbits I did find were not necessarily about the actual Mazda version and one I did find said that sales people were telling customers not to buy the unit.

Thanks