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well here's Ford's latest head-unit interface now dubbed sync 3.0 the old and often the line my Ford touch is gone although that touch is very much here let's take a look at what they've done to address complaints to be honest first of all take a look at this screen big clean large zones and very easy to see everything at a glance the old MyFord Touch had lots of little rabbit hole as you could get down into with all kinds of settings and layers here it's largely at one level this ribbon is persistent here at the bottom as opposed to the four corners they used to use for different functions so you've got audio at one point climate phone your apps will be here and some settings what's interesting is as you've already noticed quick response now for it tells me that you kind of had to improve everything to get there better screen technology it's now capacitive versus resistive they also have more processing power and they've optimized the software underneath these specifics of course once you get into them there's not a whole lot of additional stacked layers that's keen it used to confuse a lot of folks who are not the most tech forward auto owners as to what's possible and where that option is that they were looking for once you get down to the apps area and interesting story because this now fully embraces four it's a plank platform which is the largest collection of automotive enabled apps in the business over 60 of them right now but they used to be segregated only in sync which didn't make them appear in my Ford touch now there's been a reunion of sorts one last thing to show you one of the benefits of having a capacitive screen versus resistive on the touch is you've now got the ability to do multi-touch gestures you can do a swipe like this on a map screen you can do pinch and zoom and such now sync 3 starts to show up in later 2015 on 16 model year cars