It boasts 265 horsepower at 6,250 rpm and 250 foot-pounds of torque at 4,500 rpm, a decent amount for a car of this size. The 3.5-liter V-6 moves it forward well, but doesn't give a huge push. Plenty of oversteer makes lane changes and other maneuvers a deliberate affair. Although the Edge is built on a car platform, it doesn't feel nimble. The brawny exterior styling of the 2008 Ford Edge seems to make up for the fact that it's not an SUV and hints at its trucklike driving experience. Sync also displays phonebook entries on its screen, so you can choose any contact from the LCD. Those features alone put it in with the top systems we've seen from BMW and Audi, but what puts it over the top is how you can use voice commands, speaking any name in your phonebook to make a call. Sync is compatible with a much wider array of phones when it comes to basic features, such as downloading phonebooks and call history.
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In our tech test, we covered some features of Sync's Bluetooth cell phone integration. You won't hear glistening highs or thumping lows with this system. The music was loud enough, and a subwoofer in the cargo area adds some good bass, but separation is very poor, leading to a generally muted sound.
We weren't terribly impressed by the audio quality in the Edge. With an MP3 player connected, Sync gives us complete access to all of our music. Both roof panes also feature powered sunshades. We figured about two prom couples could stand through the sunroof, with it fully open. We also had the optional Panoramic Vista Roof, which puts one big sunroof over the front seats, extending back into the rear passenger area a little, and a smaller fixed glass pane over the rear seats. That's the limit of their techiness, however, as you'll need to use muscle to get them back up. There were a few nice touches for the interior, such as buttons in the cargo area that make the rear seats fold down. We should also note that the K790a also supports Sync's other cutting-edge feature of streaming music over Bluetooth, which is also only supported by a few phones.Īlthough we liked the stitched leather seats in the 2008 Ford Edge Limited, the dashboard was covered in hard plastics. We hit the OK button and Sync read the message out to us, translating LOL into "laughing out loud." In our subsequent texting back and forth, we found that Sync wouldn't translate WTF, merely reading out each letter.
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LOL." This time we had full functionality, with a message appearing on the Edge's screen telling us we had a new text. Next, we tried to reply with the simple phrase "Let's go. Sure enough, the text with its Ford postscript showed up on our phone. We turned to the Sony Ericsson K790a and repeated the first part of the test, sending the preset text message from car to unpaired phone. Sync read out this message, pronouncing each letter in WTF and translating ROFL as rolling on the floor laughing. The Nokia 6131 only had half the equation. But when we replied to the text with our unpaired phone, it appeared on the Nokia 6131 but Sync did not pick it up. Moments later the text appeared on the phone we had sent it to, with the postscript, "This message was sent from my Ford." We hope this text is customized for Mercury and Lincoln cars.
Sync doesn't let you type in an original message, which would be unsafe, but provides some preset phrases, such as "Call you later" and "Be there in 10 minutes." We touched the screen to select one and hit the send command. We tried out the Nokia 6131 by first trying to send a text from the car to the phone.
Pairing each phone was easy using the onscreen interface, and we particularly like that Sync generated a unique six-digit PIN for each phone, a level of security that is generally unknown in car Bluetooth systems. Checking around the office, we didn't find these exact phones, but we did come up with a Nokia 6131 and a Sony Ericsson K790a. This list showed which phone worked with which features, very useful for our purposes, and we were surprised that only nine phones worked with texting, including the Motorola Razr V3xx, the Motorola Slvr L7, the Sony Ericsson W810i, and the Nokia 6133. So we did some research, finding a list of compatible phones on the Ford's Sync site. We had no luck with an iPhone, a Samsung SGH-D807, or a Samsung SGH-T619 in our earlier reviews. First, we had to find a phone that worked with Sync's texting feature.
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