30 October 2008 – Portable navigation system for Smart contract hire customers
Smart car leasing and contract hire customers can pick up a nifty little device that will help them navigate busy city roads quickly and safely and help them to get to their destination with the minimum of fuss.
The Garmin developed smart branded Portable Navigation System from Mercedes-Benz is designed to compliment the interior styling of the smart fortwo range. The system sits neatly next to the instrument controls on a mounting bracket.
Features of the smart Fortwo Portable Navigation System include touch screen operation with a large high-resolution TFT monitor. Menus can be set to one of 20 languages; voice instructions can be set to one of 15 languages.
The system interfaces with the smart car’s audio system and loudspeakers, muting the radio or CD and switching to satellite navigation when instructions are being given.
Technical specification for the Smart Fortwo Portable Navigation System
- Dimensions: 113mm x 82mm x 56mm
- Weight: 269gm
- Power: By connection to the car’s supply or by battery operation
- Maps: 2D or 3D perspectives
- Display: Anti-glare, sunlight-readable 3.5" TFT colour LCD display
- Operation: Via touch screen
- Safety: Anti-theft protection with PIN input when system is turned on
- Languages: 20 selectable languages on menu 15 selectable languages for voice
- Memory: 256 MB memory card with maps for Europe included on DVD SD memory card slot for card extension
- Other: smart service centres pre-installed Self-configurable destination memory
- Trip computer
- Mileage counter
- Average speed display
- Direction indicator
Please check with your smart in-car entertainment supplier for full technical specification.
The smart Fortwo Portable Navigation System also helps you to miss traffic-jams. The system receives Traffic Message Channel signals through the smart car’s radio and provides the driver with the best avoidance route.
At the end of the day smart fortwo drivers can just jump into their cars, hit the ‘home’ button and the system will provide directions for the quickest and easiest route home.
Spokesperson for leading UK smart contract hire and car leasing specialists, City Vehicle Leasing commented: ‘smart is the perfect car for nipping round your local town or city in. But you probably know your local roads like the back of your hand.
‘Our contract hire and car leasing customers use smart cars for both business purposes and personal use. This often involves long distance driving and visiting unknown parts of the country. The smart portable Navigation System is a genuine smart accessory and perfect for those journeys that take you away from your regular well beaten track. The system ensures you get to you destination quickly and arrive feeling calm and relaxed.
‘We would recommend the smart Portable Navigation System to all our smart fortwo contract hire and car leasing customers’.
Sadly this portable satellite navigation system can’t yet shut the curtains, turn the lights on and put the kettle on, but it’s such a smart device, watch this space.
Prices for the smart Portable Navigation System are around £280.00. The system-mounting bracket costs around £155.00.
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