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everybody Tim Stevens was seen it I'm standing next to the biggest product launch here at Mobile World Congress 2014 literally and perhaps figuratively as well this is the 2015 Ford Focus in 2012 Ford sold over a million of these things making it the best-selling car in the world and Ford shows Mobile Congress to be the place to unveil the next generation of that car rather than waiting for Geneva next week which is a much bigger Auto Show why well Ford wants to get ahead of the churn of news it's going to be coming out next week and also because there's a lot of cool technology that we're going to talk about in just a minute but first let's start with the exterior this is a slightly refreshed version of the current Ford Focus it's available right now at your dealerships biggest change up front is with a new corporate Ford grille looks a lot like an Aston Martin you seeing it on the edge and a couple of other Ford products to new headlights as well and overall all the greater fuel efficiency from more aerodynamics which is certainly going to be good but the biggest change in fuel efficiency will come from the 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine we've seen that in the Fiesta it's going to be coming to the Ford Focus as well only with a 6-speed manual transmission we're told it will be only with a 6-speed manual in the US as well which may make some US buyers a little bit cautious some bigger changes on the inside so let's take a look in there inside we have a revised layout that's a little bit clean a little bit nicer than before not radically different but it is improved we got a larger display here in the center for the my Ford touch interface as well as the new Sync interface sync 3.0 which has some nice improvements the UI is a little bit cleaner biggest changes are in the navigation system the interface is much prettier we've also got the Michelin Guide built in a sequence of restaurant reviews there you've also got an integrated rear view camera which is now standard plus it's got cameras pointing out the sides that will tell you if you're backing out of a tight parking spot whether or not you maybe need to wait a few minutes for some traffic to go by we've also got some upgraded improvements here for driver assists they'll help you to avoid crashes as well up to 50 km/h that's much faster than before it can also swerve around other cars automatically before it would just stop now can actually drive around them for you so if you're not paying attention this might just saved your bacon I can also parallel park itself and it can perpendicularly park itself as well which is new and it'll even back itself out of parking spots which is also something never again this is the 2015 Ford Focus it should be hitting dealers sometime toward the end of the year for hasn't given us any specific pricing just yet business we're not talking about any radical changes expected to fall in line more or less with what the current Ford Focus calls again I'm Tim Stevens with CNET here at Mobile World Congress 2014