Hi there! Happy to join you and congrats with this forum! Looks great! I am a former Smart 4/2 Passion driver (07-200 and dumped the beast in great dissapointment for its heavy fuelconsumption, bad dealer-service and nasty gear-habits. Mij IQ will be deliverd the 11e of May and is Pearly White (the purple and black are not my favourites). It is the most luxury version with full options. So i am pregnant so to speak.
Having said that i am a male of 58 years of age and a projectmanager in the public service. I have driven cars from 1974 of different makes and models. After the dark Smart-months I was hooked on the IQ when i finished the testdrive at my dealers. It ticks all of my boxes so what more can i wish. I sold my Smart after 7 months use and lost a bundel doing that. It troubled me every day and i am glad its gone now.
Hobby's: gaming, photography, collecting knives and knivecrafmantship and i am a gadgetfreak (my wife does not like that )
Hope to join you all every day and learn and enjoy your experiences with the IQ.

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Welcome! It is great that you will have your car so soon. We here in America don't even know for sure if the iQ will be sold here, let alone when.

[size=10pt][size=10pt]Don't worry, the recession will speed things up a lot i think! Toyota would be foolish not to introduce this model in the USA. Up till now we drove about 1700 km with our IQ and enjoyed it every minute! The average is about 1: 17,8 litres of gaz. I had to get used to some things like the keyless entry of the car. Closing it by touching the doorhandle is a miss sometimes, but that's just making it a habit to do it right.
I just found out trough the Dutch IQ-forum that the sparebulbs that are delivered with the car are not the right ones. The headlights use a HIR-bulb which is not included in the spare-set. This contains only a H11 bulb which fits the foglights in the front and not the headlight. I wrote Toyota about this and I'm waiting for their answer. Furthermore i ordered a rubber "trunk-mat" to cover and protect the backseat when its folded down to enlarge the bootpart (which we did a few days ago when we had a short holidaybreak). In this way you can drop your bags etc without the fear of damage to the leather interior. It works quit well! OK that's it for now. Keep you posted! Have fun!

Good to know about the trunk mat & bulbs.

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Hello Emelyn, if you do not know how to answer the people speaking Japanese, ay ket ag-ilokano ka latta kabsat. Mabalin latta Just speak Ilokano - ..... i am lost in translation.... Hahaha. Joke. Siak ni Summer from the North particularly Cordillera Region.