I bought an Icom A22 in 2001 following a radio failure in a rented spamcan. Excellent product, works well with the headset adaptor and the remote PTT switch, range about 10 miles with the whip aerial (if exposed to a window) and as much as a panel mounted radio if using a dedicated standard external aerial (via a 50 ohm BNC lead).
The VOR facility isn't useless; it works just as it should. I used it constantly when flying flight training spamcans on which none of the nav gear worked, so all I had was a GPS strapped to my leg, plus the A22 reading off a VOR radial as a 3-digit decimal. I have all the VORs in England programmed in the memory.
These go on Ebay regularly; the only drawback is the larger size compared to the new ones, but most of the new ones are not CAA approved which just means they can't be overtly sold by the usual UK pilot shops.