This GPS was my first one and set me back (from memory) something like 1500 guilders, now 750 euro. Bought when my then girlfriend (now wife) were going to visit my sister in Israel. As I was taking the car from the Netherlands via Venice via Athens to Israel and vice versa the idea was that we would use it in Israel with all the 'funny' language on the signs. Eventually we found it most usefull in Greece (funny language) but mainly in France off the autoroutes where you drive into a village without proper signage to get out. It turned out that in Israel signage is (or was) in three languages, Hebrew, Arabic and English.

This unit was one of the first specifically designed for use in a car and has a large screen and all the main roads in it. It even gives average and max speed (which I have used a lot to stay away from speeding tickets from before cruise control). The main disadvantage (and main reason to replace it with the iQue 3600 three years later) was that routes had to be programmed turn by turn. After that naviation messages would be given (no speech) but programming took much time and after one had finished the route was also imprinted in memory.

Apart from that, it served in our second car form some more years as a speedometer and then when we bought our boat as a navigation system giving speed, heading over ground as well as position on a rough but adequate map if used together with the nautical chart. It runs of batteries or 12 V and is still happily running with a now very outdated map (which is still accurate enough as only the main roads show anyway).