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| To the frill of powerful Dodge Caliber SRT-4 of 2009 |
| Hyundai Elantra 2009, one compact that grows |
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The Korean manufacturer Hyundai brings the compact van Elantra Touring 2009 to the concessionaires of the country, with attractive characteristics, like a good performance in the tracks and economizador of fuel. Also it is provided with a wide cabin and an extensive area of load. Photo: Hyundai Motors
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Carlos Guzmán
Autoproyecto.com
25 years ago, Hyundai was a small manufacturer surcoreano that scarcely began to do his mark on the American market, and although it was offering cars at very reasonable prices, he was lacking reliability and quality. Nowadays Hyundai is a manufacturer extensively respected in the United States thanks to his new attractive and intelligent designs, and a super guarantee bumper-to-bumper of 5 years or 60.000 miles.
New Hyundai Elantra Touring of 2009 is a very finished compact van, with a long standard list of equipments that make her compete properly with the Mazda3 of five doors, for example.
Also, it has a bodywork shaped by lines and European curves, although the design is neither so attractive nor spectacular like of current compact others. The 17 inches rims included in the bundle Premium-Sport ($ 1.500) are indisputably sports, accentuated by the tires of low profile.
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The handling of new Hyundai Elantra Touring of 2009 is soft and predictable. The transmission has precise changes and a soft clutch that is not tiring in the traffic. Photo: Hyundai Motors.
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Wide cabin
The Touring includes equipments standard like air conditioning, windows and electrical insurances, control panel of the stereo mounted in the frill, control of cruise, frill covered in leather (although it sits down more like vinyl) and frill with telescopic adjustment. Also, there removed satelital XM and breeding animal of CD compatible with MP3 and six loudspeakers, between others.
He emphasizes the wide and comfortable cabin for five occupants. The rear seats can swoop down to create an extensive load area. Under the apartment of the porter there is a compartment to keep small articles, and also it offers a compartment with lid in the top part of the board. In the central console there is a connector of auxiliary audio and a port USB for portable breeding animals of MP3. The special cable for an iPod costs $ 30 additional.
The optional bundle Premium-Sport that I mentioned earlier also includes slippery roof and front seats with heating.
Engine and safety
Under the hood we find an engine of four cylinders and 2.0 liters that it develops 138 horsepowers and 137 torque pounds sterling / feet.
In general, the handling is soft and predictable. The transmission has precise changes and a soft clutch that is not tiring in the traffic. The acceleration is adapted for the daily handling, but it would not qualify it as sports.
The safety equipments include brakes of disc anti-lock, electronic system of control of haulage, electronic system of stability, six air bags and monitoring of pressure of the tires. Also, it has a solid chassis with reinforced props of the roof and folding areas that absorb the energy in collisions.
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| It is more dangerous than in summer or winter, according to study |
| A lot of care when he handles in autumn |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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This accident happened in autumn 2007 in the Interstate one 95 (I-95) assumed to the reigning darkness at this station, between other factors. Foto:AP.
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Although many people believe that the summer is the most dangerous period in the freeways and highways of the country, because the drivers tend to go more rapid, they drink more alcohol and drive more often for pleasing, a new report of the University of Michigan (UM) indicates something differently.
In a study that there publishes the current edition of the magazine Traffic Injury Prevention, Michael Sivak, of the Institute of Investigation of the Transport of the UM, determined that the deaths valuations in accidents of
motor vehicles are higher at the autumn station.
In October it is to the ceiling of the list with 10,2 deaths for every 625 thousand miles (billion kilometers).
Sivak used the information of fatalities and of traveled distance taken of the Department of Transport and calculated the fatality valuation and for distance led for every month from 1994 until 2006.
This way it determined that October, November and December they have the highest deaths valuations and in March it has the lowest (8,8 deaths for every 625 thousand miles), continued in February and April.
From March until October the valuations increase every month and then they descend from October until March although it is a winter in our north hemisphere.
The risk of a fatal accident for distance led in October is almost 16 per cent major than the risk in March, observed Sivak.
If the conditions were equivalent one would believe that the inclement time, the snow and the ice, they should increase the risk. But because the inclement meteorological conditions also lead to general reductions in the speed, the clear effect is not clear.
The same way, there are several factors that prevail more in the summer and that indicate that the risk of driving should be major in these months, pointed out Sivak.
For example, the gait in motorcar for pleasing, which happens more often in ways that are not familiar for the driver, and the trips to higher, night speeds and under the influence of the alcohol, quite which is riskier that when he behaves to go and to return of the work, it added.
Although there is no available conclusive information, it is probable that leading a motorcar for pleasure and recreation is more frequent during the summer months, when the schools are closed. Also, the beer consumption shows a strong seasonal change, at the highest levels in the summer months.
So that: why October, November and December are they more dangerous for the motorists that other months of the year? A possible reason might be the duration of the darkness that it increases in the autumn and is more prolonged at the end of December. Pero Sivak believes that there is no only reason.
There are several well-known factors that have major influence in the risk of driving and that strong changes show in accordance with every season, it specified.
| GM finishes the production of the Pontiac |
| Ford looks “to eat up” the GM market |
Keith Naughton
Southfield, Michigan
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The Cadillac CTS-V is a vehicle of high yield, since it generates more than five hundred horsepowers, which make it fantastic in the tracks. Photo: General Motors.
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Ford Motor Co., the only big manufacturer car of the United States in having avoided the failure, perhaps could attract clients of General Motors Co. after the last one has finished the production of the mark Pontiac.
The results of several surveys suggest potential advances for Ford, the second biggest car one of the nation, after GM reduced from eight to four his American marks. To retain Pontiac clients is crucial for the strategy of GM of capturing 18.5 per cent of the car market in the country, where the remaining marks had 16.5 per cent of the sales in June.
" Ford really has begun to attract attention", informed the general manager of CNW, Art Spinella, in an interview from Bandon been of Oregón, where the company of car investigation has his central head office. “The Pontiac proprietors have aged, and they are looking at the vehicles of the principal scale of Ford, like the Taurus and the Merger”, it added.
The American market share of Ford, with head office in Dearborn been of Michigan, was 17.2 per cent in June, except for the line of cars Volvo that is being sold. Ford is benefiting with positive critiques and quality qualifications of new models like the sedan Merger, as also of the favorable feeling of the consumer for the company has not accepted a governmental rescue, Spinella supported.
The chief of marketing of Ford, Jim Farley, confirmed that the car one is attracting more buyers as “other concessionaires and marks disappear”.
“ We see an increasing traffic”, told Farley in an interview. “We have discovered that the managerial reputation can be a really big promoter so that the people go out to buy your mark. Many people like how we are arranging Ford for our account”, it stressed.
GM has been the biggest car one for sales of the nation from 1931, title threatened by the achicamiento of the company during the restructuring. Spinella showed that "the tendencies lines favor" that Ford eclipses GM for end of year or in the first trimester of 2010.
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