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Punch your destination into the navigation system in a new vehicle—especially a luxury-brand model—and you’re likely to get more than just driving directions. Many of today’s systems alert you of upcoming traffic congestion and even adjust your route on the fly to help avoid it.

But there’s a catch. Most of the real-time traffic features offered as original equipment use satellite radio-based data services—called either XM NavTraffic or Sirius Traffic—that require a monthly fee of about $10 a month (four dollars if you add it to satellite radio service). Past the trial period, if you don’t subscribe, you’re out of luck.

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Chrysler announced today that it will be the first automaker to offer in-car mobile TV with a full channel lineup. The new service, FLO TV Auto Entertainment, will bring up to 20 channels for a monthly fee that's low in comparison to existing satellite services.

For a couple of years now, Chrysler has offered the Sirius Backseat TV option—available as part of the Uconnect Studios package on a number of Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep vehicles.

But as we reported last month, when we tested the Backseat TV system in the Chrysler 300C SR8, even though it's very well integrated with the vehicles' entertainment and nav systems, it's not quite what you...

The low-riding, mean-looking, top-of-the-line Chrysler 300C SRT8 feels like a mature high-performance luxury sedan—big 6.1-liter V-8 under the hood; rich-sounding audio system inside, backed up when you need it by a punchy Kicker sub in the trunk; and classy, supple black leather seats with grippy, ventilated suede inserts.

Seems about the most refined and adult you can get without a walnut-trimmed drinks cabinet, cigar case, and Jeeves, right?

How about [drum roll] satellite TV entertainment?

Just when it seemed to good to be true, it was. You see, all that would tune in inside this sophisticated, high-performance, very adult sedan...