But not as we know them. Ford’s going to start injecting microscopic air bubbles into the plastic parts, reducing weight and improving performance while saving fuel. Sounds crazy, but this is no April fool.
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The new Ford Focus, due to hit forecourts with Ford Sync and MyFord Touch technology in 2012, will have the ability to phone for help if you crash, CEO Alan Mulally has revealed in his CeBIT keynote. Even better, it’ll use GPS and cell towers to tell emergency services where to find you, and automatically speak the language of the 999 operator in the country where you had the prang.
It’s been quite the morning in gadgetry. We’ve got tasty news in mobile, gaming and much, much more, so read on for it all right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
We’ve taken the new Ford Focus for its first test drive on British roads, but when we pulled up to get out, it finished our test run with a surprise: it parked itself. The 2011 Ford Focus is the first in its class to boast automatic parallel parking assist. Switch it on, cruise past a space, and it’ll size it up using built-in sensors. Assuming it’ll fit in the gap, the Ford Focus does the rest. See it in action in our video after the jump!
We’ve been gawping at the new Ford Focus, taking it for its very first test drive on British roads. But the biggest surprise wasn’t the mind-boggling about of gadgetry behind the wheel, it was behind the grille: Ford’s new family runaround uses “active shutters”, but no, they’re not there to make the new Focus 3D capable.
After bringing you the very best gadgets of CES, we’ve been dragging our jetlagged behinds around the North American International Auto Show, or NAIAS to its friends. The result? This stonking video of the best eco cars on offer. There’s everything here from hybrids to full-on battery-powered electric cars. Feast your peepers after the break!
By our watches, we make it lunchtime, so stop what you’re doing and chow down on our feast of gadget news. It’s all been rounded up for you and served up on a plate here in the lunchtime lowdown.
Want to see where Ford fine-tunes the tech that goes into its latest cars? This is it. The Ford Virttex car simulator is used not, as you might expect, to trial run new motors but rather to test driver reactions to the technology inside them. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Ford Motor Company’s inner sanctum.