Sat-nav voices - who should we use in NZ?

Royal Shakespeare Company star and former Z-Cars actor Brian Blessed, who had a new lease of life on Blackadder, is set to become Tom Tom's new Sat-Nav voice.

Blessed is doing this in response to a Facebook campaign asking for the public's favourite potential voiceovers for the Sat-Nav company. Thousands counted the actor as their favourite.

He now joins Hank Azaria's Homer Simpson and John Cleese's Basil Fawlty as preferred voices.

What we need in New Zealand is a Paul Holmes voiceover.

Of course, we could always use Sue Bradford's voice and never get there at all, or we could have Chris Carter and blame it all on everyone else.

Maybe ace blogger David Farrar could be used. But we'd need a windscreen wiper on the INSIDE if we did.

Sir Ed would have been great, but it's a bit late now. Steve Hansen wouldn't work: I can't understand a lot of what he says even when I'm lip-reading!

Willie Lose has a nice voice, but his grammar would probably disqualify him, and if it was Murray Deaker, too many people would simply sit behind the wheel, stationary, and argue with him.

Do you have some favourite voices for use in Sat Nav, and some good, preferably entertaining reasons?

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