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My parent's Hyundai had no customer-facing internet-related features on the car. Still had a cellular radio for telematics. A potential tell is an SOS button. (That's a non-issue since it's 3G now and that went bye-bye but 4G is going to be around a while)
But my similar age to your Focus, newer than the Sonata, Sorento had nothing that I could find. So it's possible.
Ford started shipping all of their cars with one in 2015. I linked an article showing that somewhere up there. I'll edit to post it here too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2015/11/17/ford-steps-into-the-vehicle-telematics-space-with-sync-connect/
Except I don't have sync connect. I have an old sync which as far as I can tell has no telemetry and is completely defunct considering it doesn't work with anything anymore.
You have sync 2. Because that is the standard sync system on your vehicle. It became standard on all Ford models in 2015, 2-ish years before your car was manufactured. Believe whatever you like, but please read the article.
I did read the article. And you're just proved my point. It says specifically in the article they can do ota updates to sync 3. Doesn't mention sync 2. And if sync 2 has a cellular antenna, it ran on a 3G which is now dying/ dead. So my car would not be connected. But there is nothing to indicate as far as I can tell that sync 2 has any sort of telemetry to the outside world.
https://www.cjponyparts.com/resources/ford-sync-versions
Take that info however you want. I don't care anymore.
I know what version of sync I have yah dingus