> Wired CarPlay is rock solid

Mine always has a sound blip a few (15? 30? I haven't timed it) seconds in whenever I play any song (or at least, the first song when I start playing music). I wish I had a CD player in the car.

My car bluetooth (2022 Tesla Model 3) is great and reliable, EXCEPT the huge latency. It connects and disconnects when it should, and is fine for audio, but if I want to sit in my car and watch a video (when public charging, when eating, or on my break at work, so a common situation), it literally has about one second of latency making everything completely unwatchable.

Unless you're in a 2017 VW Polo, then even wired CarPlay can be weirdly flaky. Though that appears to be the ICE system itself losing the plot rather than the connection per se, but I can't be certain. It was quite surprising to come across!

Add my Prius Prime to the list. Nothing but a perfect experience. My phone is too old and hangs often, but closing the phone screen helps a lot.

Of course, wired means you need to plug and unplug a USB a lot more often. And the USB port is the first thing to go on many phones.