New 2011 Ford Focus SE

Hello, all. Just purchased and took delivery of subject vehicle several days ago after driving a 2010 low-mileage Focus rental car for a month. My new vehicle has the Microsoft/Ford Sync system which I'm still reading up on. So far I love the vehicle and the way it handles on the road. Is there anything maintenance or otherwise that I should look out for? Thanks for your time and comment. Sincerely,

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J.B. Wood
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You just bought one of the Best cars in the World.

I know a married Irish woman in England.She works for West Sussex County Council.One of her lease cars was a 2000 Ford Focus.When it came time for the lease company via WSCC to supply herself with another new car, she went looking for that 2000 Ford Focus.She liked that car so much, she wanted to buy it. cuhulin

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cuhulin

Hopefully, you will have better luck with Microsoft products than most people! Too bad they did not go with an embedded Linux.

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sctvguy1

Don't use any downloaded copyright music without paying for it (iTunes for example,where the file you download is embedded with a legal use license), especially in America for now.

Econo-cars

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econo_cars

Thanks, cuhulin, and the rest of you for the timely responses. The Focus seems like an exceptional value for the money. Sincerely,

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J.B. Wood

Hello, and yes, I'm a big Linux fan who uses Fedora/Gnome at the office and home. Heck, I wish I could port a Gnome desktop to Windows! The CUPS printing system alone works better than anything in Windows IMHO. OpenOffice (yeah it'll also run on MS Windows) ain't too bad either.

OTOH, I view the Sync system as an appliance; I'm interacting with at an app level, not developing/debugging code. So if the app functions as intended the underlying OS is irrelevant (except of course to app developers - maybe that's what you were getting at). Sincerely,

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J.B. Wood

And with Microsoft software onboard you can now undoubtedly enjoy mobile BSODs and viruses.

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Roger Blake

LOL. Haven't heard of that yet, but many Americans have been nailed for music piracy. They were caught via tracking by MS and that stupid Ford Sync crapola. In the USA it is up to $20k per track stolen.

If the 2011 Focus is the European model you're probably alright, otherwise the Focus is not a great car unless you are the type to trade in every 3-5 yrs.

Econo-cars

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econo_cars

I have seen some Hyundai commercials on tv.The Owners manual looks sort of like a laptop computer.

I don't ever want a new vehicle, they have gotten wayyyyyy too complicated for me to figure out. cuhulin, the computer dummy

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cuhulin

That woman in England, when she was driving that 2000 Ford Focus lease car, one time she said she leaned on the steering wheel and it talked to her.It said, What do you want to do? Another time she said she was pulling into a parking lot and the boot (trunk lid) flew open. cuhulin

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cuhulin

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