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The 2010 Ford Taurus SHO is quite possibly the geekest car to ever wear the blue oval. It’s packed with nearly every technology option that Ford has available.

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Video hands-on: 2010 Ford Taurus SHO

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If only this comic turned out to be true about Steve Job’s announcement tomorrow

Ford is set to announce the next version of SYNC at CES this year, but an interesting feature leaked early. Apparently SYNC 3.0 will play nicely with USB modems and turn the car into a rolling Wi-Fi hotspot

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Ford’s SYNC might change the way we use Internet in our cars

Ford revealed recently that they’ve had over 1,000 pre-orders placed online, using their new car-reservation site for the 2011 Ford Fiesta. The Fiesta has been available in the UK since last year, but this will be the first time in many years since there has been a new Fiesta in the US. This is interesting because the car isn’t even in production in the US spec yet.

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Ford lets people reserve a 2011 Ford Fiesta online

Here’s a little known fact: Henry Ford used natural material like hemp and stray to reinforce plastic components in his cars.

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Ford’s using wheat straw in a 2010 Flex component

One of the only downsides to owning a Zune HD instead of an iPod is the lack of speaker docks. There simply isn’t that many available and the ones for the previous Zune’s aren’t compatible. But Kicker knows what’s up and just released firmware to make its $249 ZK500 Zune HD friendly

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Kicker to make the ZK500 Zune HD compatible

Holy cats, Ford is going downmarket. Way down. Way, way down.

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Ford does the unthinkable, announces the $650 car

The days of automakers shoving the same OEM radio into all of their cars are long gone – at least for vehicles over $20k. Now if you drop enough coin, you can get a system that will rival your home theater gear. Sound & Vision recently spent sometime with the THX II sound system found in the Lincoln MKT crossover.

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Sound & Vision goes ears-on the Lincoln MKT THX II sound system

Now, I can’t say I feel one way or the other about Ford and Sync in particular, but this is a worthwhile milestone. Cars are changing fast, and although I doubt they’ll look like these F-Zero-wannabes any time soon, the coalescing of all those dash controls into a single unit is a serious advance.

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Ford ships its 1,000,000th Sync-powered vehicle, Ballmer gets it

I say no, but that’s just me. What do I know, I just spent 10 days driving 3,200 miles in a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid

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Can the Ford Fusion Hybrid travel 1,000 miles on one tank of gas?