peter.soper

Took delivery of mine yesterday. Superb! I have the Converse+ display. If using the Aux input, there is no way the Sony can establish what the track info is, as all it gets is an audio input. I did notice today when I played a CD with mp3 tracks on it, the track name is displayed on the Converse+ display, which is quite neat. To deal with the mp3 player in the glove box, I have a fairly long lead that allows the mp3 player to be plugged in, and put in one of the centre console storage areas...

[Re-posted in correct forum] I am about to order a new Galaxy as a company car. Ford have been excellent with loan vehicles (2), and in my opinion, this is the best driving, best built and most refined full sized 7 seat MPV available today. The loan vehicles I had both had the old Satnav system. I see from the new brochure/price list there is a new touch screen version. Some questions: 1. What type of display does it give when driving? Is it a top down map view, or a more 'driver oriented' 3d type view, a la Tomtom etc? 2. How does it handle traffic reports? From what I saw of the old system, you could look up the traffic incident reports, but it did not seem to integrate with the planned route 3. On the one or two screen shots I have seen, there seems to be some sort of cursor on the screen? 4. Any general comments on the system? I am used to a Tomtom One XL - excellent functionality, inc traffic reports via RDS-TMC, but wires everywhere, and small screen - is it worth the extra co car tax on the

I am just about to order a Galaxy with Adaptive Cruise control. I had one on loan from Ford and it was superb. It is set while driving at a certain speed, but you can turn the set speed up and down (in 5 mph increments I think). I think I set it once or twice at around 20 mph, and then you could knock it up to 30 using the steering wheel controls. I demonstrated it to my son and his mate, by setting it to 30mph, on a fairly busy road. It kept behind the traffic that was doing less than 30, and as we approached a line of statioanry traffic, the collision alarm came on, it started braking, and I lost my bottle and helped it! I am not sure if it will completely brake for you - I assume so, but was not prepared to test it. It will apply the brakes going down hill I believe. My only concern was wether it was lighting the brake lights when it made adjsutments. I guess this is easily tested with a friend following behind, but maybe somebody here can confirm? WRT flexibility, there are two buttons on the left hand side of the steering wheel controls that allow you to adjust the distance between you and the car in front. I think it is a scale of 1-4. I found I was using it on 1 (shortest) most of the time on the motorway - on 2-4, too may people were jumping into the gap between me and the car in front all the time. But then again, I currently drive a BMW, so I am used to sitting in the next car's boot.... :27: Hope this helps...