Ford SYNC Could Sell One Million Units By 2009

DEARBORN – Ford Motor Company’s Microsoft produced SYNC entertainment system is selling about 10,000 units each month and on track, the auto maker says, to reach one million sales in early 2009.

Ford SYNC connects people and their favorite portable devices while in the vehicle, including media players and Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones. It is a hot new technology exclusive to Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles.

Ford confirmed in a press release Thursday that new features are coming this year and that nearly every new Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicle will be available with SYNC system by year end, when approximately 85 percent

of company’s retail volume will be offered with SYNC connectivity.

During calendar year 2008, SYNC will be

offered on even more products, including the 2009 Ford Flex and

F-150; the 2009 Ford Escape; Escape Hybrid; and 2009 Ford Expedition. The

2009 Lincoln MKS will be launched later this year with SYNC as standard

equipment, and SYNC will be added to the 2009 Lincoln Navigator. For

Mercury, SYNC will be added to 2009 Mariner and Mariner Hybrid.

Ford also announced it will lead in-car connectivity even further

forward with the launch of a next-generation navigation system available

for the first time ever with SIRIUS Travel Link, a system that connects

vehicle occupants to the information they need, right when they need it.

SIRIUS Travel Link will provide up-to-the-minute information and

entertainment content including current gas prices from an estimated

120,000 filling stations, local, real-time traffic information for 78

markets, coast- to-coast weather conditions with five-day forecasts, as

well as sports scores and movie listings details for some 4,500 theaters.

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