Mobile phonebooths: Bluetooth-enabled cars

Wayne Cunningham, Senior Editor May 6, 2008

Most people end up scrambling around through coat pockets and purses when their cell phone starts ringing. In a car, this usually means trying to push aside a seat belt or reaching over into the passenger seat, resulting in off-the-grid driving experiments. But, if the car and the cell phone have a solid relationship forged by Bluetooth, the phone can stay comfortably hidden away while the driver answers the phone by pushing a steering wheel button. Here are the cars that we've reviewed with the best Bluetooth integration currently available. All of these systems import contact lists from cell phones, letting you see your stored numbers in the car's interface. The Ford and Mercury particularly stand out for their use of Sync, which lets you make calls merely by speaking the name of a person in your phone book.

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