More funds rain for initiative “Money for his Old Edict”

At full speed

Special for Autoguide
Washington Hispanic

The business transactions for the program “Money by his Old Edict” were realized in much more rapid form of the thought about all the concessionaires. Photo: Matt Rourke / AP

With an unusual speed, the Congress sent to the president Barack Obama an injection for 2.000 million dollars to the program “Money for Old Edicts”, an impulse plan to the economy which success has overcome all the expectations.
The plan attracted the buyers – who returned in mass the concessionaires - and increased to the moment the sales of the automotive industry, flooded for time in the recession.
The Senate approved the money for a voting of 60-37, last Thursday, the 6th, then that some officials of the government pointed out that 1.000 million initial dollars had become exhausted in only 10 days.
The House of Representatives had already approved the same total to keep alive the program, which grants to the consumers federal subsidies even for 4.500 dollars so that they exchange his old cars for newer and efficient vehicles in the fuel consumption.
Of not having approved quickly the funds, the legislators were running the risk of generating dissatisfaction between the voters, for suspending the program while two cameras of the Congress were in his recess of one month.
The sympathizers with the program praised his effects in the automotive industry, which had in July his best monthly performance in almost one year, as well as his benefits for the environment.
The action of the Senate crowned a fast answer of the legislators, who last week were informed that the program was remaining quickly without funds.

 

Ford Taurus and Ford Taurus SHO 2010 break with the tradition

They do not look alike to typical Ford

Bill Kaczor
Tallahassee, Florida / AP

Taurus comes with the system SYNC in the board, which integrates the cell phone, iPod and the iPhone with the system of entertainment of 12 horns. Photo: Ford Motor

Ford dazzled us when we saw for the first time in the Edict Show of Detroit 2009 the redesign of the new Taurus, a vehicle that for his serviceability and design looks like rather a Lincoln (the luxurious division of Ford). Ford changes his strategy to construct quality cars that the people want and that also show hundred per cent in his design and technology.
We see the same initiative with the Merger, Merger Hybrid and Mustang, which is a part of “a change of action” to penetrate the motorcars market, and the results give the account to Ford, since for the first time there sold more cars than utilitarian vehicles and vans.
The interior is not anything of what you think of a typical Ford and have luxurious touches and technology for that one more than one Lincoln would wait. It does not import if it is in the basic model or loaded Limited, the interior is luxurious, with a progressive design with a board elegantly designed.
The leather seats are comfortable and they use an optional system MultiContour that the seat fits so that you come more rested to destination (his cost: $ 595). The compartment easily feel five passengers with sufficient space in the rear seats for an adult who measures six feet. Taurus comes with the system SYNC that it leaves that you integrate his cell phone, iPod, iPhone with the system of entertainment of 12 horns. An advanced system of sound Sony with 390 watts of being able alone will be available like part of a bundle in the models SEL, Limited and SHO. The model SHO comes with a more sports interior with the board of sports aspect and seats of double color with a material very similar to the deerskin. The interiors of all the models come with lights of ambience which color the driver can choose.
Other technologies include control of adaptable automatic speed that it brakes using a radar that it detects when you come closer another vehicle. The System Collision Warning informs the driver before a collision. The system BLIS detects a car in the blind spot of the vehicle with a technology shared with the cars Volvo.
The safety system that more impressed me was Cross Traffic Alert, a system that it indicates if there is a secret vehicle when one steps back in a parking.
On having handled the Taurus, you feel that it is a heavy car that unfounds a safety sense. The interior is big and he feels in the highway. I was impressed exceedingly by the model SHO who with his haulage in four wheels and the engine of 365 horsepowers does not remain behind of anything.
At present there are more than four million proprietors of Taurus and the truth is that it is the best vehicle made of Ford's history, the only American company that did not declare itself in bankruptcy.

 

Kia throws his new compact sedan Forte

His goal, to be a champion in sales

For Jaime Flórez

Two hostesses surcoreanas show the new sedan of the manufacturer Kia, so called Forte, which has a base cost of $ 11.300. photo: Ahn Young-joon / AP

Per years, Kia has come standing out for his notable penetration the market of economic vehicles and in the course of time it has managed to extend his briefcase of products where they already represent minivanes, subcompact, sports small cars and sedan, both small and medium.
It does scarcely a pair of months we surprised it to all with the Soul, a compact one of cubic forms, similar to the Scion xB and to Nissan Cube, but much more self-seeker as for standard team and it redeemed somewhat more sports.
In fact, in these a few weeks, the Soul has already reached for the Korean manufacturer a significant achievement. It turns out that Kia sells very well in small towns and rural areas, but it has had difficulties for posicionar his cars successfully on the 20 most important markets of the country.
Well, thanks to the Soul the buyers on these markets have begun to look with good eyes at this novel product and have begun to buy it in really surprising quantities. Only during last May more than 38 thousand units sold, over his direct competitors, the xB and the Cube, but also powerful others in the segment, Suzuki's SX4 and another Scion, the xD.
Obviously the moment that we cross might not be more adapted to present before the market a product as the Soul, and making use of the opportunity, Kia has considered to be suitable to throw now the Forte, a compact sedan that comes to rise with the kudos that per years it has come receiving the Spectra, whom exactly it comes to replace.
It is already free in the concessionaires in three versions, LX, EX-and SX. At the first two o'clock they are impelled by an engine of 4 cylinders, which produces 156 horsepowers. And the version SX brings the 2.4 liters engine, also of 4 cylinders, but with 173 horses. The transmission for the versions LX and EX-can be manual of 5 speeds or automation of 4, and for the most powerful version SX it is offered by manual of 6 changes or automation of 5, by Sportmatic.
In any of three versions one emphasizes the economy in the fuel consumption, 25 miles per gallon in the city and 35 in the freeway, with the 2 liters engine, while 2.4 liters that covers 22 miles in the streets and 32 in the highways, with every gallon of regular gasoline.
Also, there is free in the version EX-the Fuel oil Economy Package, which with two liters engine, automatic transmission of 5 changes, intelligent alternator, electrical direction, rims of silicate and aerodynamic treatment, achieves 27 miles in the city and 36 in the freeway.
Kia Forte is a vehicle that without major pretensions manages to attract the attention, and when there is had the opportunity to lead it, he ends up by convincing. On the subject of amenities it brings all, most of them of them like standard team, to exception perhaps of the navigation system. The rest, matching Bluetooth of cell phone and other devices, radio satelital Sirius, connections for portable audio systems and others, is included in the price.
As for safety devices, Kia Forte is the leader of his segment, with active rests for the head and frontal bags of air of high technology.
As all the Kia vehicles, the Forte is covered by the best available guarantee on the North American market, basic of 5 years or 60 thousand miles with assistance plan in highway, and 10 years or 100 thousand miles for the motive train.

 

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