New Land Rover comes with everything

Ford's prowess: $ 1.000 millions in profit

Corvette Coupe 2009: Sports delight

The Mercedes-Benz Clase comes already And

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The version "superloaded" with Land Rover 2010, with double compressor, supports the progress averages and impresses with his 510 horsepowers. Photo: Land Rover

Sergio Tacchella
Special for AutoProyecto.com

The models 2010 of Land Rover come with new engines, more potency, less I consume, minor emission, advanced technology, major dynamics. But not everything changes: the quality and the prestige stay intact.
For the American market, Land Rover offers new models of LR4, continuation the line that began with the Discovery and there continued with the LR3, Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. Each one designed to satisfy with an individual answer the refined taste of the faithful users of the mark.
The gasoline engines are new. With major cylinder capacity, they improve in all the aspects, offering proper values of acceleration of a sports car. For the "inhaled" version, the potency reaches 375 horsepowers. It improves the efficiency achieving a reduction of the consumption in 7 % with regard to the previous promoter and 7 % less of emission. The "superloaded" version, with double compressor, supports the progress averages and impresses with his 510 horsepowers. The changes and progress happen also in the suspensions, the brakes and the general dynamics.
The design fits to the modern tendency of cleaner lines in the exterior, a delicate care in the materials and completions, and the incorporation of technological progress in all the aspects of active and passive safety, systems of control and haulage. A redefinite adjustments program to face all kinds of area heightens the proverbial and already traditional qualities off-road of the mark.
In the short space that these lines allow us it is impossible to describe, at least to mention, all the new elements that integrate into the new generation of Land Rover for the year 2010. Before this limitation, more it costs to appeal to the curiosity of our readership and to invite them to approach a concessionaire of Land Rover and cheer up to know more of these wonderful vehicles in a distended chat and realizing a handling test.
This way then we dedicate the space that we have left to speak about the "experience" Land Rover, which is a heap of sensations that rest on what the vehicle offers but it is projected in what he means to be an owner of a LR4 or a Range Rover: exclusivity, style, quality, prestige constructed from his rich history and spreading beyond an engine, a chassis, four wheels.
We handle in city, in highway, in mud, rock, sand, crossing rivers and shallows, climbing and lowering the hills of Scotland and England. The vehicle does everything and the driver enjoys and enjoys the trip relaxed beyond the difficulties that presents the way or the long of the passage, coming to destination like a feudal gentleman.
One more paragraph to emphasize two elements: the navigation system, with speech recognition commands in the chosen language, is fantastic, for simple and clear. The second element that paid powerfully the attention to us is his system of five cameras strategically placed, whose conference are appreciated from the central screen with an angle variety and proper perspectives of a video game, given that we see as if we were raised on the vehicle, under him, behind or to every side, allowing to know exactly the position of every side of the vehicle and the risks proximity in maneuvers of scarce margin. A marvel.

The Taurus SHO, uno de los modelos in which Ford trusts to reach his entire recovery. Photo: AP

Tom Krisher y Dee-Ann Durbin
Dearborn, Michigan

Ford Motor Co., the only manufacturer of motorcars of Detroit that pushed the direct governmental help back and avoid to go into bankruptcy,-2011-old optimist surprised the investors with a profit for almost 1.000 million dollars in the third trimester and a prognosis “solidly profitably”.
The company with head office in Dearborn, Michigan, affirmed that his utilities were achieved owed partly to the increase of his presence on the American market, reduction of costs and the program of governmental subsidies “Money by Old Edicts”.
Ford obtained a few net profits for 997 million dollars, or 29 cents for action. Ford announced that of course it will be “solidly profitably” in the year 2011. In advance the company had predicted that would cover expenses and would have light profit.
The division of Ford's North America achieved a few gross profits for 677 million dollars, his first trimester with black numbers from the first one of 2005. The income for the car operations increased slightly to 27.000 million dollars.
The benefits happened despite a contraction for 800 million dollars, 30.900 million dollars, in the income opposite to those of the third trimester of last year, due principally to the performance of his financial arm, Ford Motor Credit, who granted less credits.
Still, Ford said that it reduced his structural costs in 1.000 million dollars during the third trimester.
Ford has also 26.900 millions of dollars in debts, an increase for 800 million dollars opposite to that of the second trimester.
Excluding the divided not appellants, Ford gained 26 cents for action. The analysts had predicted a loss of 12 cents for action.
The financial director of Ford, Lewis Booth, said that the company obtained 1.300 million dollars of what it spent in the trimester, opposite to 1.000 millions in cash that spent in the second trimester. “It is a prowess”, he affirmed.

Camilo Alfaro
Autoproyecto.com

To handle the Corvette in the city, freeway and curves is one of few things in the life that we all have to prove because it is a pure diversion. Photo: AP

We cannot find any defect to this marvelous American sports motorcar and how we might do it if the Corvette engineers take more than 50 years improving this tremendous vehicle.
From the exterior design to the interior, everything is perfect. Only for his appearance, the Corvette gives you the impression of being the most rapid car. Our test model came with a roof style standard Targa, what means that it was possible to remove only the part that covers the driver and the passenger.
The interior is a 100 % sports, with one of the boards better designed in the automotive industry. The center of information communicates to you all the information that a driver needs, like the temperature of the oil and transmission, the pressure of the rims or how many volts the battery has, to name some. The seats are the most comfortable and in a trip of four hours that I realized recently, not the passenger I we do not even feel any backache.
The engine V8 6.0 liters is not only rapid but also economic! With 430 horsepowers, this called enormous engine internally the LS3 produces 26 miles per gallon in the freeway prepared with the manual transmission of six speeds. In the city the LS3 it produces 16 miles per gallon but this vehicle has his tricks to give good results more; for example, the engine is so powerful that to change speeds of the first to fourth is not a problem and does that you have a better gasoline yield.
The Corvette is comfortable in the long trips and that that our test model came with the bundle of high yield called the Z51, which includes bigger perforated brakes, rims and suspension of high yield. This engine roars, or perhaps the correct word is it "terrifies" the freeway, accelerating from 0 to 60 MPH in only 4,2 seconds and reaches a maximum speed of 190 MPH.
I do not believe that a sports car exists in less than fifty thousand that wins the Corvette; it is more, if it had the option of a Porsche or the Corvette, my hand wanted the keys of this sports American.

From Stuttgart
Germany

The new model Clase And 2010 of Mercedes Benz improves the efficiency in the fuel consumption. Photo: Mercedes Benz

The German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz announced the arribo to the United States, in the next months, of his new Class And shaped 2010. Approximately 40.000 units were already sold to the European market from his throwing during the last spring. The signature highlighted the good reception of sales of this model and highlighted that he foresees that this reception continues after his introduction in the United States and China, as well as with the arrival of the version Station Wagon in this autumn.
The vice-president of Sales and Marketing of the company, Klaus Maier, told that this model turned in last May into the leader of sales of his segment in the whole world, what demonstrates the good reception experienced after his recent throwing.
One of the principal innovations of this car is “the alert system for weariness”, that it comes from series, as well as the automatic lights of highway and the braking thoroughly automatically if a sharp accident danger is detected and the driver does not react.
The signature indicated that one has worked very much in improving the efficiency in the consumption of fuel of this model. This way, the new Class And it incorporates the system of direct injection in eight of ten engines of the model, what the fuel consumption helps to diminish in 23 per cent.