Latest 2008 Ford Focus SES

It’s closely a year since Ford unveiled its totally redesigned 2008 Focus at the 2007 Detroit auto show, and for a company desperately in need of a successful vehicle particularly in the newly fashionable compact segment .Ford requirements its entry-level model to be a hit. The revamped Focus represents something of a drastic styling departure from its predecessors. Out go the hatchback and wagon body styles of the previous generation, replaced with a more bulbous and curvaceous European design reminiscent of a squished Ford Mondeo. It is on the inside, though, that the game really changes for the 2008 Focus, with the availability of another product that headlined in Detroit last year: Ford Sync. Designed by Microsoft, and exclusive to Ford Motor products, Sync represents a quantum leap forward for Ford (and the auto industry in general) in terms of controlling in-car media and communications. Our 2008 Ford Focus tester was the review car we have seen with Sync (it comes as standard equipment on the SES), and, after testing it to its breaking point, we can report that despite a few niggles, we’re impressed. Very impressed.

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