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Social media is digging its hooks into the tender car segment, with Ford launching its new Fusion41 campaign to follow up on the Fiesta Movement. Chevrolet is getting in on the action too, with a contest to name the Volt's paint color. Volkswagen has even launched the 2010 GTI via an iPhone app that lets gamers Twitter with each other over who has the highest score.

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If you own a 2010 Ford Fusion, have three gung-ho friends and would like have Ford pay off the rest of your car payments and give your whole team free gas for a year, then the Fusion41 campaign might be for your. The Blue Oval brand is looking for eight Fusion or Fusion Hybrid owners to make four-person teams for the contest.

Once the teams are formed and selected, Ford will begin tasking the teams with challenges. The contest is set up like a relay race, with the car being passed among each of the team members every 41 hours for three continuous weeks.

By now you're probably wondering what's up with the "41" figure--it's the EPA city...