More Awesome Than You!

Like the title says, get it HERE (http://thesims2.ea.com/getcoolstuff/ford/index.php)

It won't install with clean installer. I had to use the default Maxis installer, but it said that it installed ok.

Thanks for the link.

I wonder how much Ford paid EA Games for that bit of publicity.  Will it start a trend?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Well, this is the second Ford car in the last six months. :) They came out with the Mustang in what, February? March?

I rather enjoy a certain number of "real" items in the game.

I don't mind EA advertising in this manner at all. 

It's a continuation of an existing trend, I think this is the third real life car they've put up a download for.

It's just fine for free downloads.   :)  The H.M. Stuff pack is still irritating, though.

I didn't really mind the H&M pack, honestly. Most of the stuff in there that has the logo is also available without the logo, so you can still use all the stuff and never ever see the H&M logo. Of course, I also actually liked the clothing, so...

Third? Drat! I am missing a car ... what is the third one?  I only have the two Fords...

It seems that Ford is advertising a car that hasn't been released to the public, yet. It says coming out in September. I don't mind them advertising cars at all. 'smatter of fact, one a month would be nice!

Thank you for buying American!

well, downloading...

I kind of like that real companies are finding their way into games - I think Ford and other car companies already made an impact on different kinds of car games and if it helps keeping the cost of the game down, then so much better. I see it as a win for everybody - I, the player get a realistic real car, the sponsoring company gets some PR and Maxis get some of the development cost reduced.

I think one of the EP's had a Yaris as a bonus item. I think those are by Toyota. It probably came out when Nightlife was out. I found it on a site that had all the bonus items up for download.

there is the HotRod and the Fiat Punto (Numenor made it recolorable) --> http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=126395

The real car isn't released in America yet? We have it in Australia, and by coincidence it is the car I drive. As it is my very first brand new car in almost 30 years of driving, I love it. The car magazine reviews were favorable about it, if that means anything.
 My sims are getting this right now, and if someone makes recolors I'll bloat my downloads folder with them too  ;D

All modern cars look the same to me...
I'm not sure why ford is doing this.  I don't think the Sheep are in any position to buy a car, and simmers who aren't sheep aren't going to buy a type of car just because their sim has one.

YESSSSS - they made a version for those of us without Nightlife!!!  Having every sim in the 'hood driving around in a Mustang spoiled it really!

I'm actually curious if cars older than the Mustang work with the Car Kit for non-NL games? Anyone without NL try?

Those of you with sim-Trepies in your game should download this.

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y110/chipmc/trepiefocus.jpg)

Because its what Real Trepies drive.

Am I the only one who can't seem to get this car into their downloads folder? I downloaded it multiple times, and the package installer and clean installer can't seem to do the job.

I never use an installer for Maxis-made downloads because they don't seem to work properly with the self-extracting files.  I just double-click on the icon of the downloaded item.  A window pops up with a description of the item and asks if you want to install it.  Click yes, and it's done.

I did. Normally they go to the downloads folder, yes? Well, they aren't. Unless they are in the teleport folder, which would be a little weird.

I did that too and it doesn't show up in my downloads folder either. I don't know where it went since it said it installed.

I believe it goes to your Teleport folder, and is moved to the Downloads folder once you start the game.

It's actually quite sad in an hysterically funny kind of way. Ford is now haemorrhaging more cash per annum than it so recently had in surpluses that it used to buy up "premier" brands like Volvo and Jaguar. I don't know about the situation in the Americas, but in Euroland Ford has progressively migrated assembly operations further and further east. Vans, for example, are now built in Turkey and then shippped back to Southampton to have the gremlins installed. Exceptions to this rule, oddly enough, include the eurp version of the Focus, the robotic assembly of which is supervised by retired Belgian chocolatiers in Gent.

I have way too much time on my hands ....  ::)

I'd like the H&M stuff better if EA weren't asking for money for it. (Then again, there's not an actual physical store within fifty miles of where I live, so my reaction to H&M Stuff was "who is that?")
The Ford cars are free to download, which makes up for a lot of their being advertising.

This is exactly what happens. After you quit the game, there will be 2 items in downloads. One is the car and the other the recolors. If, like me, you have a well organized downloads folder, they will be easy to spot. They have horrible number names.

odd, I installed it to my downloads folder with Clean Installer and they don't have horrible number names...

they are named;
CarOwnable_FordFocus.package
CarOwnable_FordFocusMatles.package


if anyone is interested, Kathy over at InSIM has made it recolorable
http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?p=847186#post847186

Yea, I installed it yesterday with Clean Installer and had no troubles at all -- got the exact same two files you did.

Clean Installer wouldn't work for me.  Using the maxis installer you end up with 3d2bd70b839b44cc8519878aab0966b8_0001.package and a00a6b90b67c4c99960a139d8cfa1bc3_0001.package.  Very charming.

It would be super awesome if they could code this to have a high mechanical failure rate, like real the real Focus.  :P

I come from one of those super patriotic families that has only ever owned Fords. We have pretty much the full product line parked in front of our house. If only they'd sim the F-350 so Sim Me can have her truck in game. Sim Me's boyfriend can have his Focus and be bitter that her truck is better, just like in real life.

...I still want a Bumblebee-style 'vette. *pouts*

Same here... -muttermutter-

I'd say here that they are out and out hemorrhaging (sp?) blood, as the result of one stupid business decision after another. It's tragic. Poor Detroit :(

The two files went straight into my downloads folder too with CI after I double clicked on the DL'd sims2pack.

My current problem with cars.......... 
I don't have NL, so the Focus is the cheapest car in my game at 6,700$ (approx).  But I've got all the wants for the cheaper NL cars without the cars and they kick in pretty persistently.  Yesterday, Mrs Burb had 3 of 4 want slots devoted to cars + get promoted.  You could say she's obsessed with buying a car and pretty miserable about not getting one!  Of course they have no money....  any suggestions?

They made him like yours on the Picture without a Licenceplate. Really nice i think.

I'd just work on getting her promoted a few times, along with John (does he have a job?) and maybe even Lucy when she becomes a teenager.

Of course, if you have no scruples against cheating occaisionally you could always help them along. The LuckySims New Car Allowance™.  :D


Care to post a link? I've never heard of or seen a TS2 Yaris anywhere. Surely if it was official material they would have posted it on the exchange to show it off...  ::)

Unfortunately, John burb's nearly perfect garden is right where the drive would need to go, so she'll have to stay obsessed until he gets his wishing well.

I'd like to figure out how to sell second hand cars in game without getting into modding.  I don't have NL and the turntables don't work.  The game wouldn't let me take a car out of inventory and mark it for sale last time I tried.  I figured it was the just not allowed, but I'll have to give it another whirl to be sure.

You have to go into wholesale mode to buy cars on business lots. (A caryard was the first business I opened when I got OFB and I had no idea how they worked  :D) But I didn't use the turntables, I just used move_objects to place them in the yard, worked like a treat. So I assume you could do that - set up a caryard, get a rich friend to go there and buy a car, and then give it as a gift to Jennifer Burb.

It sure is a good way of making money, anyway. The lucky owner of 'Garrett's Used Cars' has made $70,000 from the business to date, mostly from dazzling gullible townies into buying terribly overpriced sportscars.  :D And he's been managing it on his own for most of that time, because he has only one employee, his girlfriend, and she's been on maternity leave half of the time.

Yeah, forget the turntables, they suck, and take up way to much space. Not to also mention they don't work with custom cars!

Oh yes, I've recently dabbled in a car business recently, the car lot 'Sunshine Autos', named for a...car lot in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City...yeah...I have little originality. It's made my Business Tycoon Sims probably somewhere in the range of $200,000 in the matter of...maybe a week, and managed to finish off that easy 'Earn $100,000' LTW for both the Sims. Sadly, until recently, unless their next workday goes well(I just added another level to help with customer demand which will probably hurt my profits for the day) they've either had really low profit or really high profit days, always alternating between low and high. It IS a great money maker though, I love it, so much money, I might even boost the prices up to...whatever is above the one above Average.

That would be ridiculously expensive.  :D

Jennifer Burb needs a rich friend huh - and here I though she was a nice girl...
I have car lot selling new cars in Meadow Lawns; that makes a lot of money too.  You can't sell cars from your inventory on car lots though - at least I couldn't.  They had to be out of the catalogue in wholesale mode ie new.