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| Spectacular success of the Program CARS (“Money for your Scrap”) |
| Boom of new cars |
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The executive of sales Iván Lovera (right), delivers to Ally Mahoney the keys of his new Chevrolet Aveo 2010 reduced in 4.500 dollars, in exchange for Chevrolet Tahoe 1999 of his father. The family made use of the advantages of the program named CARS or “Money for Scrap”, started by the government. The initiative will put approximately 750.000 new vehicles in the tracks to replace equal number of secondhand units, all who will be destroyed. photo: Charles Krupa / AP
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Víctor Caycho
Autoguide / WH
Thousands of clients keep on registering every day in more than 20.000 concessionaires of the whole nation to exchange his old cars for vehicles of the year and with minor indexes of pollutant emission, benefiting with reductions that change between 3.500 and 4.500 dollars. For it they must expire with a series of requisites, established by the so called governmental program “System of Incentives and Payments for Buy of Edicts” (CARS for his initials in English), that is achieving a qualified success of “spectacular“.
The government delivered initially 1.000 million dollars with this intention, which became exhausted in only one week. The Congress turned out to be forced to approve another 2.000 million dollars in subsidies. The target of this campaign is that approximately 750 thousand new cars begin to circulate immediately in the highways instead of equal number of more ancient and less efficient vehicles.
Manufacturers and concessionaires of the metropolitan area of Washington DC hope that CARS should impel the sales of new cars from here until November, considering the enthusiasm that has woken up between the clients the program “Money for his old car”, known popularly like “Cash for Clunkers” (Money for Scrap).
The democratic legislator Steny Hoyer, of Maryland, thought that “the consumers have spoken with his portfolios”. The president Barack Obama praised the conferees for the decision to extend the budget for CARS; in the emergency voting that took place last Friday, the 31st of July the plan was approved by 316 affirmative votes and 109 in against.
Obama affirmed that at first there were skeptics who did not believe in the program, but that “we are already seeing a spectacular increase” in the sales in the whole country. He added that the program favors the consumers and simultaneously it helps to reduce the environmental contamination.
Additional discounts
The sales manager and Marketing of Ford, Ken Czubay, also considered the program to be as “an enormous success” and announced, in declarations to the press, which the sales of new motorcars seem to have increased in an obvious way in the last days.
Also, the dealers are great and also some manufacturers who have added additional discounts to those who should qualify for CARS.
Chrysler, for example announced his so called campaign “effective double”, which joined the governmental incentive can suppose savings of up to $ 9.000 for the models Chrysler, Jeep or Dodge 2009.
Toyota and Sling also flooded the market with advertizing notices in which they offer additional stimuli.
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| Sedan completely re-designed in the tracks |
| Acura TL 2009: rare and captivating |
Special for Autoguide
Washington Hispanic
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The model TL of Acura is a very finished sedan, of elegant exterior silhouette, and whose sumptuous interiors are replete with technological marvels. Photo: Acura
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With the début last year of the model of his van MDX, of the second generation, Acura released a subject-matter of design that he has been adapting to all his other models the same way as he is re-designing them.
The most recent of the Acura in receiving this stylistic treatment is the sedan TL of 2009 which redesign gives beginning to his fourth generation, looking that this one will highlight, for thing that managed, although he would say that the new TL stands out too much. The design, especially the hood, borders on the extravagant thing. From other angles it shines well. The interesting sheets and outlines in the bodywork released in the MDX are present in the TL and give him substance to his appearance. But in what him the hand went away to Acura it was in the broiler. It is excessively big; so much that gives the impression that the car was extremely weighed straight ahead. And it is more, it does not even shine like a broiler. We can call it this way because it is located in the center of the frontal part and is provided with a gap that provides ventilation to the engine.
But surprisingly, the TL is a car that it conquers many admirers. There were enough the coworkers who commented to me very positively on the car. Will I be the only one that challenger found it visually?
Very good taste
What yes seems charming in the TL is the cabin. Every interior component was designed by very good taste. Complementing his visual attraction the materials are. Nothing feels cheap inside this car. Improving even more experience of being in the cabin there is the splendid team of audio that is part of Technology Package. This option, present in our TL, includes a 440 watts set and ten horns with surrounding sound that includes conventional radio, I remove for satellite XM, breeding animal of compact discs, internal memory with capacity for 2,500 songs, connection for iPods and port USB. In fact, on not having had my iPod to the hand, I listened to music that I have pen stored in one drive or memory stick.
Other teams that shape the Technology Package are a navigation system with monitor to eight inches colors and speech recognition, trailing for satellite of the conditions of transit and system of ignition of the motive type pushbutton.
Source: Autoproyecto.com
| Surprising investigation of University of Austria |
| Does he want to know “the personality” of his car? |
Bill Kaczor
Tallahassee, Florida / AP
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Dennis Slice, teacher of scientific calculation of the State University of Florida, analyzes the personality of this model Beetle de Volkswagen, in Tallahassee, Florida. Photo: Phil Coale / AP
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The butterflies transfers in the fender of the front, the flowers in the panel of instruments and the lime-green color simply there confirmed the perception of Dennis Slice on a Beetle de Volkswagen parked in the State University of Florida (FSU for his initials in English).
Slice, an investigative analyst of forms, affirmed that the narrow body, the wide circular lighthouses, the high windshield and the curved hood of the beetle correspond to the smiling facial features of a woman or of a child.
“ East is the classic pretty car, which is neither domineering nor aggressive”, there determined Slice, an associate teacher of scientific calculation of the FSU. “I think that nobody might be perverse with the driver of a Volkswagen Beetle”, he made sure.
Slice and investigative partners of the University of Vienna, in Austria, where teacher is a guest, are exploring the wide belief of which the motorcars project personalities because there look like human faces when they are seen straight ahead.
The caricaturists, for example, have drawn anthropomorphic cars with toothed broilers that laugh jokingly or frown or lighthouses that they wink like eye.
The creators of the recent movie of cartoon “Cars“, yet, used the windshields as eyes. They were afraid that the lighthouses as eyes had given to Lightning McQueen and other "citizens" of the town of Radiator Springs of a snakes appearance.
Three motorcars parked close to the Beetle offer examples put up in the bogey of personalities: a Mitsubishi Eclipse, a Ford Mustang and a Dodge Charger, which practically exudan testosterone.
His wide position, long hoods, enormous broilers and relatively narrow lighthouses give to these sports models an appearance that is consistent with the facial features of an adult man, supported Slice. Each one projects a mature, domineering, aggressive and powerful personality, added the forms specialist.
“ East is a car that is ready to do what it is necessary to do”, mentioned the standing specialist before the Eclipse. “One does not want to get tangled up with this car”, he added.
| Singular experiment lasts three months and a half |
| “Crewed trip” to Mars in super truck |
Mansur Mirovalev
Moscow / AP
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The scientific investigators (of left to der). Sergei Ryazansky, Aleksei Baranov, Oliver Knickel, Aleksei Shpakov, Cyrille Fournier and Oleg Artemyev pose after finishing “the flight” to Mars, in Moscow, on Tuesday, the 21st of July. After them, the super truck that lodged them. Photo: Mikhail Metzel / AP
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Six scientists – four Russians, a German and a Frenchman - stopped on Tuesday, the 21st of July happening 105 days confined in a metal capsule looked like to an immense truck, like part of a simulacrum for a possible trip crewed to the planet Mars.
Serguei Ryazansky, captain of the team, declared the reporters on having gone out of the capsule that the most difficult thing was to know that they did not realize really the trip of 172 million miles (276 million kilometers) to the red planet, but they were in a metallic cloister devoid of windows, almost completely incommunicado.
Six men, especially selected, were three months and a half from March 31 in the capsule located in a Russian scientific institute not very far of the Kremlin. During all this time they were practically isolated of the exterior world.
They had no television not Internet and his only contact with the exterior was the communication with the coordinators of the experiment, who also were watching them by means of video cameras. Every communication with the world out was taking 20 minutes, as it happens during a real spatial flight.
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