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| Sports and powerful model, surprises in Edict Show of Chicago |
| The comeback of Ford Taurus SHO |
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The elegant and sports design of the renewed one, which gets together with a powerful engine V6 Ecoboost, they impress pleasantly to the specializing criticism and to the public who is present at the Lounge of the Motorcar of Chicago, inaugurated on Wednesday, the 11th. Photo: Paul Beaty / AP
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The Lounge of the Motorcar of Chicago, which was inaugurated in the “City of the Winds” on Wednesday, the 11th, is the event chosen by the manufacturer Ford to throw the awaited model Taurus SHO 2010.
And from the next summer it will be to the sale in the whole nation, at the cost of $ 37,995, he codes relatively high for a Taurus, although it goes down for a sedan of 365 horsepowers, which also includes integral haulage and high technology in comfort and safety.
Many people still remember Ford Taurus SHO (Super High Output, for his initials in English), who should release originally in 1989 like a more sports and powerful alternative of the standard Taurus. In that one then, his production lasted ten years, with a whole of more than 100.000 commercialized units. Now, with this new generation of the Taurus, the mark of the blue oval tries to re-live through this glorious past very necessary in these difficult times for the automotive industry.
This one shaped account with a 3.5 liters engine V6 biturbocharger EcoBoost that develops 365 horses (potency of a V8 with the efficiency of a V6), associated with an automatic transmission SelectShift of six speeds, who sends the potency to four wheels (AWD). New Ford Taurus SHO 2010 will have a few 20 inches new rims, a few small reforms in his optical front parts and rear ones, more chrome details and a few bigger exits of leakage, which make it very attractive and captivating for the drivers lover of the sports cars.
Also, it incorporates the flaming engine EcoBoost, 3,5 liters that V6 of 365 horses, with that it obtains more horsepowers, which separate it greatly from the conventional model.
Inside, more luxurious certain details remind to us that we are before the ceiling of the scale and before a modern reinterpretation of the historical SHO.
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The engine Ecoboost not only is ecological but it gives him major potency than those of previous models. Photo: Paul Beaty / AP
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| Obama proposes panel that watches restructuring |
| Plan to accelerate automotive industry |
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Hyun-Soon Lee, the model Genesis presents 2009 that was rewarded by the first award of Average On Wheels, Inc., in Detroit. Photo: Jerry S. Mendoza / AP.
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The president Barack Obama glides to designate a group of tall officials and not a “czar of the cars” as it had appeared, to watch the restructuring of the American automotive industry.
The secretary of the Treasure, Timothy Geithner, and the Director of the Economic National Advice, Lawrence Summers, will supervise the panel with members of diverse levels in the government, reported an important official of the government.
“ The president understands the importance of this matter and also it understands that the automotive industry affects and is affected by a wide scale of economic politics”, pointed out the source, under anonymity condition since at the end of this edition an official announcement still had not been done.
As the teams continue his advance, Obama “he wants to insure himself that we should obtain the experience and the contribution of the dependencies across the government”, he added.
The Group of Work Self-propelled of the president will be shaped by officials of the departments of Treasure, Work, Transport, Commerce and Energy. Also there will include members of the Economic National Advice, the Office of the House Blanca de Energía and Environment, the Council of Advisers Económicos and the Agency of Environmental Protection, according to the official related to the measurement.
Meanwhile, the American manufacturers General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC were in a career against the time to present before the government his plans with which they could justify thousands of million dollars in credits and recover his viability in spite of a fall in the sales of motorcars.
GM, with head office in Detroit, and Chrysler, in Auburn Hills, tries to be supported afloat with 13.400 million dollars in credits of the government.
In a series of interviews realized on Sunday, the 15th, the advisers' chief of the White House, David Axelrod, did not give a direct answer when one asked him if the economy would resist the GM bankruptcy not if the Obama government would allow the company to fall down at this level.
“ I am not going to prejudge anything. I believe that a restructuring of these companies is going to happen. I am not going to speak on the form in which it happens. We will wait and see what they have to say on Tuesday”, answered Axelrod to the journalistic program “Fox News Sunday”.
“ How will be done this restructuring still that must be determined”, said Axelrod. “But it will be something that needs the sacrifice not only of the workpeople of the self-propelled ones, but of the lenders, the shareholders and the executives who direct the companies. They all will have to join to construct companies that could compete in the future”, it added.
| Prototype Stingray, the star |
| A movie Corvette |
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The spectacular lines of the prototype Corvette Stingray caused sensation during the Edict Show of Chicago 2009. Photo: Jerry S. Mendoza / AP.
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General Motors decided to discover his Corvette Stingray Concept during the recent Lounge of Chicago. Sports East had been already leaked in September of last year with the name of “Corvette Centennial“, and it was been designed without another intention to develop a design study purely conceptual from the forms of the Stingray of 1959.
In addition to constituting an exhibition prototype, it is also the racing car “Sideswipe“, which is one of the protagonists of the movie “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”, that soon will be in the rooms of movies of the whole country. One of the specializing critics pointed out that “this flaming concept is a Chevrolet Corvette 'retro', that tries to bring a XXIst century a legend of the saga of this model”.
Other indicated that “Corvette Centennial is the conceptual praise for 100 years of General Motors, for which his strong point is the despampanante design that emulates Corvette Stingray of 4 decades ago”. That is observed principally in the fall of the tail (with the division of the rear glass), although in the front broiler the inspiration does not hide in the Corvette of the first generation.
Unfortunately, Corvette Centennial will be an only one exhibition model, since there are no plans of producing it not of that it turns into the future C7.
| Matt Kenseth and his Ford win to the bad luck |
| The king of 500 Miles of Daytona |
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The car Ford led by Matt Kenseth crosses the goal in the international circuit of Daytona Beach. The career must be cut by the rain. Photo: Paul Beaty / AP
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The pilot Matt Kenseth was exceeding his rivals from the last places and took possession of the top of 500 Miles of Daytona just before the rain, what allowed to the ex-champion of the series NASCAR to aim at his first victory in this prestigious career.
After one of the worst periods in his life, Daytona International Speedway continued the bad luck to Kenseth up to. It covered his principal racing car with stars, should have used a substitution and the career began of Sunday, the 15th in the last place.
But when the rain was approaching in the first career of the period, the positions narrowed, since many pilots thought that 500 miles would not move. Kenseth made use of a movement and contact of Kevin Harvick to exceed Elliott Sadler, to 54 returns of the end.
The yellow flag was hoisted a few moments later by an accident that Paul Menard provoked, and the rain that had threatened during the whole day, swooped down finally in this area of the Florida.
The NASCAR stopped the career two returns later and the cars went to the supplying pits. Some pilots rose to the roof of his vehicles to wait for the decision of the NASCAR if the career would be resumed, but Kenseth remained sat patiently inside his Ford parked in the alley of the pits.
When the officials declared that the career had concluded, the champion of the Cup Sprint in 2003 broke in tears and climbed to the roof of his racing car to celebrate the victory, with which it left behind a gust of 36 competitions without achieving the first place.
It was also the first victory in the Daytona 500 for Jack Roush, the proprietor of the racing team.
“ This is still going to be more wetted if I begin to cry like a baby”, expressed Kenseth, it usually drizzled, while it was trying to contain the tears. “I say to them that after last year, gaining a career is something very significant for me”, he continued.
Kevin Harvick finished second and AJ Allmendinger was third. The fourth place was for Clint Bowyer and the fifth one for Sadler, disappointed on having lost the top.
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