Quote Originally Posted by JhonnyQuest View Post
Thank you Butters for the short and straight answer, it looks like not even Garmin DriveLuxe™ 51 LMT-S high end unit for 329.99 USD has these features enabled. Not sure why Garmin didn't bring these features into 2017 product line. It looks like instead of getting best of the best features into new products, Garmin for some reason skipped these important features, not sure why.
To be fair, they have added other features that weren't in earlier models and I've always found 3D buildings to be just distracting eye-candy that in some models slowed rendering anyway. Better to have a photo of your destination to help you recognize it as you approach for instance.
But as said, Garmin is Garmin. Like the other great G, they giveth and they taketh away and ours is not to reason why.

Is Garmin DEM (gmapdem.img) disabled for 2017 series at firmware level as well?
DEM isn't disabled as such, it's simply not even in the firmware.