Friday, October 12, 2007

Ford SYNC recognized in Popular Mechanics’ breakthrough awards

Ford’s innovation the Ford SYNC gained recognition from Popular Mechanics’ breakthrough awards. SYNC is a product of Ford and Microsoft. Popular Mechanics liked SYNC’s affordable price of $395, voice recognition and especially how it can read your text messages to you.

Expect the SYNC to be available on 12 Fords products for the 2008 model year and more to come by 2009.

Ford is not the only automaker to make it to Popular Mechanics’ breakthrough award list. GM, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler's joint Two-Mode Hybrid project was also awarded for being a fuel saver.

This story is based on the report done by autoblog.com. To know what else made it to the breakthrough award list, click here.

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