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one of the trends we're seeing at all the auto shows especially here at Geneva is less having to buy a fancy car to get the fancy tech the 2015 ford focus is a good example of ash there's the new ford / aston martin ask face but inside things get interesting notice they've sort of cleaned up and changed the head unit and the area around it this is part of some learning for its head lately that myford touch can be a little complicated when it's all on screen instead they're breaking some functions back out to very clear easy to understand physical buttons beyond that the screen interface has been smoothed out and cleaned up as well and showing all of those improvements a bigger physical screen now the driving technology Ford was pretty early in having assisted parking which is not exactly self-parking you operate the pedals it operates the wheel now you're going to the point where this kind of a car is going to operate the break in the accelerator and the steering wheel it'll also go the other way parking spot exit and this parking deck will work for the dreaded parallel or the much easier perpendicular parking you know where we're going in a few years the kind of car that parks itself while you're completely outside of it even in a spot that's barely big enough for you to open the doors and get out of an example of another big tech trend we're seeing here under the hood which is really high strung small displacement engines in this case it's one liter three cylinders turbocharging of course direct injection what Ford calls EcoBoost but what everybody is using in combination these days this is a big rush to say you don't need to buy a 40 50 60 thousand dollar car to get the latest tech pricing and availability this cars a late 2014 release in the US except for this one we still don't get the wagon ah Oh