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13141 messages, Last post on Oct 23, 2009 at 10:10 AM
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Replying to: akirby (Jan 07, 2009 6:35 pm) I think only from CDs as well but I'm not positive. And sync can call 911 in an accident - without a built-in phone, extra phone line and national call center to relay the call. It calls from your cell phone though right? My 74 year old mother does not have a cell phone so she'd be out of luck. I doubt she and my dad would pay the $20 per month OnStar fee, along with all the other GM owners I know, to have it call either though. The tech is out there and improving by the minute. However it's not foolproof just yet. Unless I'm missing something?
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Jan 08, 2009 3:10 am) Mazda has been in the midsize class for years. The 6 has been around since '03, and the 626 was before that. And technically, the Fusion is "basically" a 6, since Mazda shared development with Ford on the CD3 platform (or GG/GY in Mazdaspeak), and the 6 was the first to market, a full 3 years before the Fusion went on sale.
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Replying to: mz6greyghost (Jan 08, 2009 10:05 am) 
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Replying to: baggs32 (Jan 08, 2009 9:20 am) If you already own a cell phone then there is no additional charge with Sync and you're not tied to one phone or phone number. |
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Jan 08, 2009 10:16 am) |
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Replying to: jeffyscott (Jan 08, 2009 7:31 am) yes you could smash the window, but then the alarm is going off and you still have to find the keys. try it and let us know how it works out. 
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 08, 2009 1:59 pm) Then have fun driving down the road in single digit temps with no driver's side window!  I too use that keypad on our Explorer all the time. It's often easier to use it when your hands are tied than to dig in your pocket for the fob.
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Read in USA Today today that Ford and Toyota are having a little tiff over who has the highest mpg in a mid-sized car. Toyota wants to make it clear that they have the mid-sized car with the highest fuel economy: Prius. Ford's take: c'mon, everyone knows the target of the Fusion hybrid is the Camry hybrid, as Fusion and Camry are both mid-sized sedans. All right now, children, if you don't stop squabbling you will be sent to bed without your supper!  http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-01-07-toyota-ford-midsize-hybrid_N.htm
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Replying to: baggs32 (Jan 08, 2009 6:10 pm) Man, I would move if I got tied up that often. 
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Replying to: bpizzuti (Jan 08, 2009 3:10 am) Where have you been? The Mazda6 has been around since 2002 as a MY2003. BTW, Ford used Mazda's GG/GY platform to develop the Fusion/Milan and Ford saved $10 billion by doing so (something I learned at my recent tour of the Mazda6 factory in Flat Rock, MI). Now that Mazda6 is all new for 2009, and the Fusion went under the knife, they are hardly similar, with the exception of a basic platform and a Mazda designed 2.5L power plant. Calling them "basically the same" is such a total lie in regards to their current form. The 06-09 Fusion was almost a rebadged 03-08 Mazda6. Ford used the award winning Mazda6 architecture to get back into the mid-sized segment after the demise of the Taurus. 5 minutes of web surfing would have told you that. Saying CX-9 has it means nothing since we are specifically discussing the mainstream midsize class Means everything. Ford was not innovative by using a blind spot monitor detection system, Mazda has it in their Mazda6, and has utilized that technology for over a year now.
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