Kia UVO Beats Ford SYNC To Less-Annoying Voice Commands

In our experience, the novelty of screaming voice commands at your SYNC-equipped Ford to get it to play one freaking song wears off after a day. Kia's new MIcrosoft-based UVO system beats SYNC to the punch with a solution. More »

The Ten Most Distracting New Car Technologies

New car technology is great right up to the point you're tagging songs and checking out graphs and then it's "Ahhhhh! WATCH OUT FOR THE NUNS!" Here are ten in-car technologies we find seriously distracting. More »

There's An App For That: The First 20 Apps Your Car Will Download

Within the next couple years your car will come equipped with an "application store" where you'll download apps to tweet your car's performance, check your emissions and order a hamburger. Below, the first 20 apps you'll download to your car. More »

Ford Goes Wireless With In-Car Wi-Fi

Ford's Borg-like Sync system will allow in-car Wi-Fi capability through user's mobile device in its next-gen system. With an appropriate USB mobile broadband modem, passengers can now tweet "I Spy" findings from the road. More »

Best Buy Partners With Ford, Planning Auto Service Takeover?

In the last month, super big box retailer Best Buy has announced partnerships with both Mitsubishi (for EV vehicles) and now with Ford (syncing customers with SYNC). What's Best Buy up to? More »

Ford's Alan Mulally To Deliver 2010 CES Keynote

Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro announced this afternoon Ford's President and CEO Alan Mulally would be delivering the keynote address at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Supposedly, he'll be showing off new hotness in the SYNC system. More »

BMW Voice Control Takes On Sync

Ford's successful voice command multimedia interface is called SYNC, implying a partnership between man and machine. The new BMW multimedia interface is called Voice Control, implying you're the master of all your techno music. More »

EXCLUSIVE: Sync Video Teases Lincoln Detroit Auto Show Concept

We happened upon this preview of the Sync concept from CES installed in a concept car sharing the same marketing visuals as the Lincoln brand. We're assuming we'll see it at the Detroit Auto Show.

CES: Ford Upgrades Sync With Turn-By-Turn Navigation

Since introduction in 2007, Sync has been a huge success for Ford, closing on 1 million systems sold. Today at CES, Ford's announced some next-generation upgrades including turn-by-turn navigation. More »

Microsoft Sync in a 2008 Ford Focus SE Road Test: Part 3

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Microsoft Sync Setup in the 2008 Ford Focus SE: Part 2

The "unboxing" of Sync yesterday didn't go quite as well as I was hoping, but no fear, there's a trusty 80-page manual to guide me through setting up the Sync in-car entertainment system. I was able to connect my Zune to the system pretty easily yesterday, so today's setup revolved mostly around setting up my cellphone, which was quite the task. See some of my frustrations in the video above, and hit the jump for commentary about the Sync system, how I decided to approach it and setting up a cellphone. More »