Thank you very much for the info! 
Can you give some additional information about the audio in JE? Some diagrams and maybe a guide how to put normal stereo? I have SONY MEX-R1 DVD Player and I love it very much! It have been with me in the last 2 cars I've own. It will be nice to be able to use it again!
I understand you very well, but that will be very difficult. You may find that the car you get has the radio in the dash board inside the megabox in the middle, and this can hold your Sony player. But you will not be able to interface it to the display or the steering wheel remote. The latter can be removed, but the LCD display if disconnected will show "OFF" permanently.
This is a mis-feature for many owners, but the standard radios are generally of good quality and you learn to love the interior design of the car. This includes the fact that there are no visible controls for the radio - no switches spread all over the dash board like all other cars have it. It's very french, and very beautiful!
I think the F3R will generally run 300 kkm without serious problems, possibly more, but it's heavily loaded on the Espace, so it will be spinning faster than in other cars like the Laguna or Scénic. It's a good engine, though - we used to have an Espace with this engine, and liked it a lot.
In city traffic I think we did about 9 km/litre, on the motorway 11 km/litre.
Gearboxes are good too.
- Anders
