These systems can be after-market installed (Nationally) to any vehicle in less than a day and are now available at Ultimate Design from around £1100 +vat

The ultimate navigation system has just become affordable

We can now also offer multiple vehicle fitting kits @ £245+vat, allowing the economy and convenience of quickly transferring the system from vehicle to vehicle (takes around 5 mins!)

Why spend over £1100 on a load of complicated electronics that will no doubt remain as alien to operate as the video-recorder, when I can nip down to WHS and buy a few maps?

Anyway, enough of the details for the moment…………

Imagine you are in central London and you are off on your holidays, headed for Uig on the Western Isles of Scotland.

For all you motorists who don't have 30 years of national commercial driving experience - it goes something like this.....

Drive around for half an hour or so finding a newsagent with parking space and buy yourself a nice new A to Z and current road atlas. Fumble through a book that is much happier closed than open and eventually find where you are.

Plan a route out of town, smile at the traffic warden, take her advice and move on, just when you were getting the hang of reading impossibly small print and trying to string together numerous pages. Glance down at the guide, xxxx it has gone back to it's favourite shape! Find another place to park - start again.

When you finally get to the edge of town, stop and try and calculate the best route to the Western Isles using the road atlas. - Soon be an experienced cartographer.- O.K. better make some notes, hmmm, knew there was something else you wanted from Smiths on your second visit?

Put map and notes on passenger seat and set off with that confident feeling that all is now under control....spot a speed camera, hit the brakes, errrr now where did those notes go to!? - Shouldn't have been trying to make up for lost time. Rummage around for notes on the floor - must be among the bags somewhere, hmm better pull over...somewhere.

Notes firmly wedged, off we go. Where did this junction come from - back to the map. Only halfway there and its getting dark - should have bought a luminous pen, can't read the notes - still firmly in place though. Drive, stop, read the notes, drive, stop, read the map. Stop. Great, traffic hold up that's all you need.

Consider re-routing, can't find the magnifying glass. Consider crying. Why is everyone hooting at you - can't they see your having a crisis? Traffic slows again, better take that turning. Stop, spend 20 mins recalculating route. Hit roadworks detour....

Frustrated? Upset? Lost? Late? DON'T PANIC !

• Imagine actually having a large clear picture of the upcoming junctions and your own through route highlighted – all the way to your destination.

• Imagine lifting that moving map straight out of James Bond’s Aston Martin and into your car.

The precise location of your vehicle is identified by the GPS (Global Positioning System) which means all you have to do is enter the destination address of your journey, right down to an individual street number or road junction if you wish. Then relax and enjoy a much more enjoyable, safer and more efficient drive.

All systems are controlled with a user friendly remote control and use a cd-rom with all the A-Z road information digitised on to it.

Going to the continent? - No problem, the supplied UK Rom incorporates principal European roads – alternatively you can purchase additional discs, for each country or group of countries. – Please request list of current countries covered.

The cd-rom drive is only as big as a conventional in car CD player (The 420 & 440 are standard DIN fitment!), the only difference being the 520 can go in the boot or some other convenient location. Other components are a matchbox sized antenna, capable of receiving up to eight GPS satellites, which fits onto the dashboard or rear shelf, and also the screen which shows the vital travel information. The voice guidance comes from a small speaker mounted in the screen which can be mounted virtually anywhere you wish.

The deck is small enough to fit under seats or in the boot without robbing valuable cargo space. The remote control can be replaced in it’s holder which is hard-wired into the system to allow continued operation, even in the event that the batteries should fail. The screen is only an inch thick and can therefore be mounted unobtrusively in most vehicles. The speaker is contained within the screen, with an optional high quality extension speaker.

The incredibly accurate navigation (hitherto impossible by electronic systems) is now possible from a small Welsh cottage in a remote hamlet to a café in the centre of Paris! – For travelling sales executives and delivery drivers, you can be sure of entering your destination quickly and easily and expect to arrive at the door! – Without once having to look at a map. Imagine how much time and fuel can be saved…

The system revolves around (no pun intended!) the CD Rom. This incredible depository of information is updated continuously and is available as a new release every 6 months (approx. £99+vat) – As technology improves, more and more information is squeezed onto the disc. In addition to the latest mapping and route calculating techniques it can hold 45 different lists of local information; ranging from Hotels, car parks and filling stations to restaurants, complete with reservation telephone numbers.

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Contact Ultimate Design, THE electronic navigation specialists for further information, to arrange a demonstration drive and to book an installation. – Fleet customers welcome.