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hi I'm Wayne Cunningham here at CES 2013 sitting in a 2014 Chevy Impala this car comes out this spring and it's got the next-generation MyLink infotainment system now this is mostly a new interface over the standard features that Chevy previously roll that with MyLink so you of course you've got hands-free phone calling navigation digital audio and also some apps like Pandora and weather but the really cool thing about this new interface is it borrows a lot from the smart phone similar to an iPhone I can actually rearrange the icons on the screen you only see eight icons per screen and you could have multiple screens so plenty of icons plenty of apps whatever GM offers in the Chevy Impala I can also drag one of these icons up into this upper bar here and there's about four icons that stay static in the upper part of the screen when I'm on other screens so I can have quick access to things like navigation or phone or Pandora is what I just put up there and to get out of the edit mode I just push this home button and beyond that customization there's also my new favorite feature here it's called favorites these take the place of presets where you used to be able to save different radio stations XM FM AM now you can save pretty much anything and Chevy actually lets you save phone numbers destinations pretty much anything that's included in the infotainment system as a favorite so you can have immediate access to it you can just push the button and make a phone call switch a radio station we also see a few other things in here like a new navigation system this is stored on flash drive and we got different maps here to look really good and one cool trick with this new MyLink system is that say you have a radio station playing here you can hold your finger across here swipe it across the screen and it'll send it to the instrument cluster display and one funky thing too is this whole screen opens up and we got a little binnacle in here where you can store your phone keep it out of side out of your hands I've Wayne Cunningham looking at the MyLink system in the 2014 chevy impala which comes out this spring