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2008 Ford Five Hundred updated

 
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2008 Ford Five Hundred updated

2008 Ford Five Hundred updated

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Ford has tackled the two major deficiencies with the Five Hundred sedan with the 2008 update. Firstly, the new sedan gets a whopping 30% extra grunt thanks to a new 3.5L V6 engine, 6-sp transmission, and AWD system. The Five Hundred’s Duratec V6 now delivers an estimated 260hp and 245 pound-feet of torque. Also new is the availability of Ford’s new traction control system.

New from the A-pillars forward, the Five Hundred now features Ford’s signature three-bar chrome grille. Chrome side vents, door handles and mirror caps give the Five Hundred Limited models a more expensive appearance.

Ford has focused on refining NVH levels, which some reviewers claimed were too high for a family sedan. The new sound package includes such technologies as expandable foam pellets in the A-pillars to reduce wind noise and the use of an advanced sound-deadening material called Sonosorb in the doors, headliner and pillars. Engineers also reduced road noise by stiffening the area where the rear package shelf meets the floor pan. Even the climate control system was improved by making the system 50 percent quieter than before.

Click ahead for a gallery of the facelifted sedan.
2008 Ford Five Hundred updated

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  1. By surok Posted: 1/7/2007 2:29am PST

    change nm to hp :)
     
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  2. By admin Posted: 1/7/2007 2:31am PST

    Thanks, missed that.
    :)
     
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  3. By surok Posted: 1/7/2007 3:05am PST

    hehe, i love your site:)
     
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  4. By DC Dutchman Posted: 1/7/2007 10:38am PST

    Ok...plain and simple...Ford needs to drop its obsession with the two and tree bars grills!!!! Plain and simple, it looked like crap on new Focus and only makes the 500 look worse then it did before. This so-called face-lift is no improvement, it is more like a joke, a big sick joke. And it just shows how completely LAZY and totally lame Ford truly is when it comes to its US designs. I wonder how many more times Ford is going to try to insult US car buyers with this junk.
     
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  5. By admin Posted: 1/7/2007 10:56am PST

    When I was putting this post together I saw the image of the red Five Hundred and honestly thought for a minute that it was an old car from the 80s and there was something wrong with the image gallery. This "new" styling is just plain awful.
     
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