World Features

Looks like Europe is the way to go.... Im going to pack!

 

ETC slot - translation please?

 

Well if I buy a III Gen I will definitely being doing the turn signal mirrors; I love them on my II Gen. I won't know if I am buying a 2010 until a deal I am trying to put together on an old Porsche I want to restore is concluded. If I get the P-car I keep the II Gen!

 

I just read that in the UK they dont pay the congestion charge if they drive a Prius. Think maybe I could get some free Cruise cards for the GA 400?

 

The Prius is exempt for the London Congestion Charge yes. Which has certainly helped Prius sales here in London - sometimes every 3rd or 4th car is a Prius! But then when the traffic is really bad you know all their engines are off which is better for everyone.

 

You're missing the Automatic Headlights, we get them too

And not to mention that the moon roof with PV panel seems to be an option on all packages, i.e. you can get it independently of having 15" or 17" for example!

 

That doesn't seem to be true for The Netherlands. The sunroof doesn't come standard in any version. If you decide to order the sunroof, you will automatically get 15".

 

rear seatbelt indicator is not that smart tideland

 

I just finished studying the Dutch (and Swiss) pricelist, but I couldn't find any information on "music box" functionality (nor anywhere else on this forum or the Internet). What's your source?

On the other hand, it is confirmed that the Navigational system is a HDD system with 40gb of storage... what else to do with it (even a whole continent of data won't use this much space, would it?). A music box feature, allowing USB of flash card for uploading, would definitly be great...

 

10 GB goes to the music. As much as I know you can rip cd to it but it wont transfer songs via usb.

However you can also get usb port as accessory, and just stick USB stick to it and it should work fine.

 

for accessory navigation which costs 990 Euros with 6.5" screen and DVD nav, you will be able to stick your usb stick or sd card into the slot and it will work straight away. It is 2din unit that will work in all future and most current toyota models and can be transfered from car to car (not easy as 1-2-3 but dealer can do it easily).

 

When I first read 10GB HDD for music I was sure it was a typo, because 10GB HDD are almost impossible to find nowadays. But this 40GB HDD with 10GB free for music seems more logical, but totally joking! 10GB? Why not simlpy put an SD card reader and let me buy a 32GB card (or two)?
I also don't understand why the DVD needs to be copied to HDD. Then, when copied, what's the DVD slot for? collecting dust? Or maybe we can insert a DVD full of MP3 or WMA files to play?
I think we'll have to wait until we see some official info about this...

 

Correct. It has been proved to be like that. So, we can get the solar roof with ANY package, as long as we get along 15" wheels. The ANY package part is different from the USA market for example, they can't have the high tech part with solar roof, we can

The only reason has to be the LKA. Solar roof + LKA is a no-go.

 

I saw it live in Geneva. I don't have the photo here at work, you'll have to wait till later when I get home. I'll post it here.

 

Then what is the use of that mini-usb port above the CD slot?

Did not get it. "Stick USB stick to it"??? Stick where? You are aware that the mini-usb port is behind the nav screen, so you would have to ride the car with the nav screen down? And I don't know of a single USB pen drive with min-USB plug...

What did you mean?

 

This is not confirmed, but I think both the DVD nav disc and music discs load now in the front radio. So you just put the DVD disc, copy to HDD, remove DVD nav, and you're done. You can use the radio CD as usual.

 

No automatic headlights on the U.S. model? That seems kind of strange. I guess I just assumed this came more or less standard in most new cars these days.