Ford will have almost two-minute Super Bowl spot that will air before the kickoff . Ford’s spot won’t follow the traditional Super Bowl model of pushing a new vehicle model. Instead, it’s about how the company’s mobility solutions can make your life easier. The ad features scenes of people getting stuck in various ways. “No […]
In the first half of 2016, three more vehicles — from Kia, Honda, and Lincoln — are set to expand the range of models supporting Apple’s CarPlay platform. 2017 Kia Forte5 Kia’s entry will be the 2017 Forte5, a hatchback equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen. The 2017 Ridgeline will be Honda’s first pickup truck in years, […]
Ford announced today that Sync 3 will come first to the 2016 Escape soft-roader and Fiesta subcompact, both of which will be available in dealerships this summer. The system’s hardware and software are both thoroughly revamped, headlined by a capacitive touchscreen that should make dealing with Sync a little closer to the smartphone experience drivers […]
Ford, an early adopter of announced CarPlay support but well behind other manufacturers in actually implementing it, has finally detailed how it will integrate its own BlackBerry QNX-based Sync infotainment system with both Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto in order to remove obstacles from car-buying choices. CEO Mark Fields said that CarPlay and Android […]
Ford left Microsoft car platform, which was used on its first two generations of Sync, and said its new Sync 3 telematics system would instead be run on an operating system from QNX, a company owned by Blackberry. Now QNX, the company providing the operating system for the infotainment in Ford vehicles starting next year, […]
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