Ilja

I don't know the answer to your question, but can you (as a sat nav owner) tell me what the language possibilities are? For instance, I buy a Lexus from Germany, can I put the language on Dutch?

Thanks

I would have thought you'd be able to choose Dutch on a German car. My car (in England) has the following choices:

English

German

French

Italian

Dutch

Spanish

Swedish

Danish

Norwegian

Portuguese

This applies to the touch-screen buttons, pop-up messages and the voice guidance.

The voice recognition selectably recognises English, German and French (though this might vary on the continent I guess).

In that case, I'll make a test drive May 26th in a German IS200 full option (with sat nav), just over the border. Only 94.000 km.

Thanks man.

This in my view is a major flaw!! If the volume for "her" is at 7, and the MLS is on at 20+ it gets harder to hear her...

I now set guidance, then drive off, suspend guidance and resume when I get nearer to my destination...

I could miss TMC and traffic routing, so it depends where I'm going.

Is there a Man's voice (and is he "camp" sounding like the one on my old Sony/Becker traffic Pro)? Is that voice any better?

Surely that was just your passenger

Maybe a word in the ear of ML, and see if they can come up with a fix.

I don't know the answer to your question, but can you (as a sat nav owner) tell me what the language possibilities are? For instance, I buy a Lexus from Germany, can I put the language on Dutch?

Thanks

Haha how cool is that, another dutchman. He told me it's a real driver's car, not just one to go from A to B.

Probably an idea to make an forum in the Netherlands :winky:

@RX-Man-8: Dank voor je reactie, stel ik erg op prijs. De reden waarom ik voor deze auto kies is dat ik juist niet alleen van A naar B rijd. M.a.w. een echte autoliefhebber met oog voor stijl. Anders had ik wel een punto sporting genomen ofzo..Ik zal binnenkort een tweede rit maken. Maar ik was benieuwd naar de meningen over de auto die ik op het oog heb. (prijs-km-onderhoud-jaartal-optie verhouding zeg maar)

Regards and thanks for the reactions so far B)

If you look at the dutch market, you'll pay 10k GBP for an IS200 with at least 88k miles.

An IS200 with, let's say, 50k miles cost you 13k GBP.

And thanks for the link to the sister site, but unfortunately germans don't speak english very well.

Besides, the car value is totally different there because you don't pay the BPM in Germany.

Are they miles or kilometres?

Assuming the car is in the Netherlands I would have thought Km's, if so that's is about 74K miles and would be a good buy :D

Oh and sorry welcome to LOC

Nop I already changed the km to miles, so 190k km..

But in my opinion it's better to buy a car with a higher mileage with good reparations (especially the stereo)

than a younger car with +/- 74k and those possible things yet to come..

Hello There,

My name is Ilja Reurings, 24 years old and live in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

I'm looking for a good IS200 and I think I found something. I already visited this site many times for buying tips etc.

I would really appreciate your opinion about this IS 200 sport:

- 1999 / black

- 118750 miles

- full option (sat nav, leather etc)

- new stereo (because of the err3)

- new belts / clutch

- new waterpump

- first four year dealer maintained, then by a local garage

- price with trade-in of my current car is € 11.000 euro (about 7.550 GBP)

Thank you very much for the reaction(s).

Kind regards Ilja