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| Lincoln MKZ 2010, a more advanced version |
| Luxury and technology in only one bundle |
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The luxurious American mark Lincoln offers to us a more advanced version of his model MKZ of 2010, presented for There Puts Horbury, the director of design. It has a completely re-designed cabin and if it was small the engine V6 of this luxurious motorcar uses the gasoline of 87 octanes instead of the premium.
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Camilo Alfaro
Special of Autoproyecto.com
The time passes flying! It looks like a lie that has happened one year since for the first time we try Lincoln MKZ 2009. For 2010 the luxurious American mark Lincoln offers to us a more advanced version, with a more powerful, more efficient engine and an optional sports bundle.
The exterior design brings small details that separate it from the previous model, like lights later LED and a re-designed porter. The big news is the introduction of a sports bundle that includes 18 inches chrome wheels, a different broiler, manacles of doors of the color of the vehicle, and dark color lights to give him this sports touch. Surely this sports model brings a suspension more energetic than the regular model.
Inside, the cabin turns out to be completely re-designed. The engineers had proposed to make her more silent, with insulating panels, and they achieved an interior more silent than the Lexus ES350. The MXZ uses materials of major quality that turn out to be more warm to the tact.
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Air sight of the MKZ 2010 of Lincoln, one of Ford's firm bets for the present year.
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Every MKZ comes standard, with seats of leather that use a system of heating and cooling, wooden panels, precaution system in reverse and the system of incorporation of technology and entertainment called SYNC. Also, the buyers will have the option to acquire a system of impressive sound THX II, with 14 horns and 600 watts of potency.
The improved engine is a 3.5 liters V6 and 24 valves that it produces 263 horsepowers and 249 torque pounds sterling / feet. The best of this engine is that it uses the gasoline of 87 octanes and does not need gasoline premium. The power is transferred to the frontal wheels route an automatic transmission of six speeds. The MKZ also comes with haulage in four wheels like an aggregate option. The MKZ 2010 accelerates of 0-60 MPH in 7.1 seconds that it proves 0.6 more rapid than seconds the previous model. The version with haulage in the front wheels produces 18 miles per gallon in the city and 27 miles per gallon in the open highway. The model with haulage in four wheels (AWD) gives good results 17/24 MPG.
Major safety. - Supporting his status of technological car, Lincoln introduces his system BLIS, which warns him the driver when there is a car or a motorbike in the blind spot of the car. We saw these systems for the first time in Volvo S60 2005 and it makes us very happy to verify that the companies which proprietor is Ford Motor share his technologies.
Another system that seemed very interesting to me is Cross Traffic Alert, who warns the driver if there is a vehicle that is going to cross in the way of the MKZ when it is going out of a parking position. Both systems work together to offer to him to the biggest driver safety.
The MKZ supports enough potency handling for the mountain and in open highway and it is incredibly agile in the city. The MKZ behaves well in the curves and the haulage model in four wheels seems to dominate them. I liked very much the sports model with the 18 inches wheels and haulage in four wheels. If you live in drastic climates through the system AWD it is a good option.
The MXZ starts in $ 34.965 and the model AWD in $ 36.855. Both come with a long list of optional teams but the most important is the sports bundle for $ 1.275. Lincoln offers very much value for the money. Although the advances of the MKZ use a more efficient engine, I would like seeing a hybrid model in the future.
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| Numbers rise rapidly in Washington, DC |
| Drivers without sure, increasing danger |
New York
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Take his forecasts not to have to pay of his pocket the consequences of an accident in the highway with a driver who does not have cars insurance.
Photo: Alvaro Ortiz / Washington Hispanic.
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A study realized by the Research council of Insurances (Insurance Research Council) indicates that between the consequences of the recent fall of the economy the increase is in the percentage of not insured drivers.
The report quotes an interrelation between the unemployment and the percentage of motorcyclists without insurance and predicts that, based on the current unemployment projection, the percentage of drivers without insurance will grow of 13.8 % in 2007 to 16.1 % in 2010.
The study includes the percentages for the state and emphasizes New Mexico, like the state with major index, 29 %. But also esteem that in the District of Columbia (DC) and the states of Maryland and Virginia, his percentages are reached by 15 %, 12 % and 9 %, respectively, of drivers who journeyed without insurance coverage last year.
This increase in the percentage of drivers without insurance, in addition to a daily trip average in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, of more than one hour – according to information of the census - increases the probability of suffering a car accident with someone who does not have surely for motorcar and of having to pay the consequences of his pocket.
Check his insurance policy. - This information complements itself with a survey that the insurance company Allstate realized last year and in which one emphasizes the absence of knowledge as for coverages.
“ The accidents are unpredictable. To have the suitable coverage can help him to reduce the financial impact of turning out to be an injured person in a car accident caused by a motorcyclist without insurance”, affirmed Gabriela Rodríguez-Niebres, of the department of Multicultural Marketing of the above mentioned insurer.
“ Knowing that there might be drivers not assured in the streets, you can think of considering the coverage for drivers without insurance. If you already have the coverage, now it is still a good moment so that it checks his car insurance policy and should insure itself of being provided with the total of coverage that you need”, he suggested.
AS TO OBTAIN PROTECTION
For accidents caused by someone without transport insurance
First, verify his current coverage and evaluate his possibilities. Consider, for example, to realize the “Review of Coverage” of Allstate, which is free, it takes only 15 minutes and is free without importing what insurance you have.
Generally, the coverage for drivers without insurance covers his certain damages for which you (or another person assured under the insurance policy) would have legal right to receive compensation of the proprietor or operator of the vehicle without insurance. While the coverage changes depending on the state and is subject to terms of the applicable premium, the coverage is typically divided in two types:
1. - Coverage Protection from bodily harms. – He helps to pay, for example, the medical expenses which it could incur due to corporal injuries that you suffer in consequence a transport accident caused by a driver without car insurance.
2. - Coverage damages of the propiedad. - He helps to pay the damages caused to his car by a driver without insurance. This coverage is not offered in all the states. Consult with an agent Allstate to know if it is free.
The coverage can be free also, in separated form or like part of the drivers' coverage without insurance, for damages caused by drivers with coverage of insufficient insurance.
For major information about drivers without insurance or without enough insurance, a local agent Allstate visits, call to 1-800-Allstate or visit www.allstate.com.
THE NUMBER
With 29 % of drivers without sure, New Mexico it heads the list of the states with major number of not insured drivers.
| They can expel it from the championship of F-1 |
| Racing team McLaren with the beards in soaking |
Paris, France
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Lewis Hamilton, (right) admits that he lied deliberately to the commissioners of the Formula 1 at the end of the Big Award of Australia. Photo: Oliver Multhaup / AP
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The team McLaren will have to realize on April 29 before an extraordinary meeting of the World Council of the International Federation of Motoring (ENTRUST) for the polemic episode in which it cheated the commissioners in the Big Award of Australia.
On Saturday, the 11th, the world champion of the F-1, Lewis Hamilton, of the British racing team, turned out to be forced to apologize privately with the director of careers of the Formula one, for having lied deliberately so much to him as to the commissioners in the Big Award of Australia.
Charlie Whiting revealed that the pilot him approached previously the GP of Malaysia to tackle the topic, and proved to be a penitent for him having said to the officials of the career that his team McLaren had not given him instructions to allow a rival (Jarno Trulli, of Toyota), to exceed him when the safety car was rolling in the track.
“ In Sepang it approached me and apologized to me for the events”, revealed Whiting to the portal autosport.com. “One brought over me and asked me to speak with me privately, only he said to me that he wanted to apologize for what it had done and was making sure me that it would not happen again”, it added.
Meanwhile, HE ENTRUSTS it it indicated that McLaren will have to explain his behavior in Australia and the accusations of which he lied "deliberately" to the commissioners of the first career of the period in the Formula one world cup.
According to a bulletin of HE GIVES CREDIT, McLaren had a pair of opportunities to rectify tests that in advance they knew that they were false, but it remained of crossed arms.
The hearing will be realized in Paris and one does not discard that McLaren suffers harder sanctions. Both the team and Hamilton, current world champion, were discredited in Australia, remaining without points.
To what is McLaren exhibited? In the first instance, the team or Hamilton might be excluded from the next careers and inclusive expelled from the current world cup.
The commissioners in Australia decided to grant the third position to Trulli and it discredited Hamilton.
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