Fast "pickup" of Toyota causes sensation

Tundra 2010, with more power and serviceability

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The 4,6 liters new engine in V8 will be free in all the versions of the Tundra 2010, which presentations have untied good comments this year. Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast / AP

Up to today there resound the favorable comments that the presentation of the model untied 2010 of the "pickup" Tundra of Toyota, with his 4,6 liters new engine in V8.
The new engine will be free in all the versions of the Tundra 2010, which sales will begin in the second semester of 2009. It develops a potency of 310 horses and takes a 15 miles consumption as a gallon (mpg) in city and 20 mpg in highway.
His double cabin is completely spacious, and it is capable of transporting up to four passengers. It is so high that he will make the drivers feel in the clouds. Perhaps the only thing that is recommended to the conductive women is to avoid the skirts that prevent them from being raised to the car with serviceability and having precaution with the small children who could not bend for his account.
To the frill, this van of major potency and serviceability can provoke something of fear in the driver not used to handle this type of vehicles. Nevertheless, as it advances it will think that it conquers looks and admiration gestures … and, also, the driver feels “owner and gentleman” of the highways.
With a potency of more than 300 horsepowers, Toyota Tundra is quite what you need for these days of intense work or to walk the finished family, like estilan many families in this country, especially between those of Latin origin.
The powerful van Tundra has three types of available cabins: regular cabin, double cabin of four doors and the double cabin of four doors of big extra size – the most spacious in his class - special to transport the team of work or all the friends of his children.
And since everything has a price, the potency of this van and his spacious interior do not allow him to offer a big fuel saving. So the sacrifice in price is compensated by a perfect vehicle for rough works. This model will be free on the market for 22.490 dollars to start.

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Racing teams Ferrari and Renault threaten to move back

Schism threatens the F-1

Jeremy Inson
Milan / AP

The racing cars of (left) Ferrari and Renault (der). they obtained the last ten Formula one world cups and they would stop taking part in the dispute for the title from 2010. Foto:AP

The Italian builder Ferrari announced this week that will not compete next year in the Formula one world cup unless the governing organism of the motoring eliminates his new limit to the budgets.
The racing team Renault followed the lead of Ferrari and also it threatened to move back from the competitions, for the same motive.
Ferrari gained the world builders title in eight of last 10 periods of the F-1, and Renault gained others two.
Ferrari, who has competed in 60 periods of the Formula one, affirmed that the new rules of the International Federation of Motoring (ENTRUST) are arbitrary and fix a double morality. It indicated that equitable rules are needed for all so that the sport continues in foot.
For his part, Renault expressed his frustration because HE ENTRUSTS it approved the new rules without taking into consideration the plans proposed by the teams.
" Renault has always considered to the Formula one as the top of the motoring and the perfect stage to demonstrate the technical excellence", indicated in a bulletin the president of the French team, Bernard Rey. "We remain compromised by the sport", he added.
The president of GIVES CREDIT, Max Mosley, heads the efforts of the organism to low the price of costs with a voluntary limit to the budgets for 40 million pounds sterling (60 million dollars).
The teams that do not implement the limit will not have certain technical freedoms, what the president of Ferrari, Luca di Montezemolo, considered to be "fundamentally unjust".

 

Big battle in hybrids they untie Toyota and Sling

Prius versus Insight

Yuri Kageyama
Tokyo / AP

Akio Toyoda, future president of Toyota and grandson of the founder of the company, poses along with the new hybrid, completely renewed Prius, which it threw to the market on Monday, the 18th. Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi / AP

Toyota threw on Monday, the 18th a new model of his car Prius with hybrid engine and announced that it already has 80.000 orders of buy of the vehicle in Japan, with which it intensified his commercial battle with the new hybrid of Sling, Insight.
The biggest self-propelled company of the world announced that he hopes to sell up to 400.000 annual units of the vehicle in the whole world.
" We are basing the future of the motorcars on this vehicle", told Akio Toyoda, the future president of the company and grandson of the founder of Toyota.
Toyoda presented the new model leading it up to the dais of a crammed room of samples in Tokyo.
The hybrid and the presence of Toyoda demonstrate the intention of the signature of changing his financial situation, which has experienced the biggest annual losses since the self-propelled one was founded in 1937.
The Prius – that now comes to his third generation and it was presented for the first time in 1997 - it is the gas hybrid and electricity best sold in the world, with 1.256 million units sold in more than 40 countries and regions. The new model will be sold in 80 countries and regions, announced Toyoda.
Nevertheless, Toyota faces the hard Sling competition Engine Co, whose Insight is cheaper and has sold successfully since it was introduced in Japan in February of this year. In April, the Insight turned into the most sold vehicle of the oriental country, turning into the first hybrid that achieves this position.
The prices of sale of the Prius will start in approximately 21.600 dollars (the Insight costs less than 20.000 dollars, a difference for 2.000 dollars), announced the company.
The self-propelled one reported as well as it will keep on selling the current Prius in Japan – principally to companies of rent of motorcars and other corporate clients - and that it will cut his price away so that it has the same price as the Insight.
The big surprise
Sling Engine Co., Ltd, announced that his model Insight turned in most longed by the buyers of Japan during April of this year, with sales for 10.481 units.
To only three months of his revenue to the market, the new Insight transformed in the first hybrid of the history in appearing between most sold of the industry, according to the information delivered by the Japanese Association of Motorcars (Japan Automobile Dealers Association), which excluded from the sample the small cars which engine is minor to 600 cc.
For his part, the Fit – also of Sling - was most sold in 2008 and also most sold from January until March of this year, until it was displaced by the Insight.
During April the Fit registered sales for 9.443 units. This is the first time that Sling occupies the first two positions, over Toyota, in the ranking of more sold cars.

 

 

 

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