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| Gallart makes sure that he has turned to wake up the interest of the clients to acquire a vehicle |
| “The sales are returning” |
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Lalin Gallart, Sales manager of the dealer Koons Tysons Chevrolet, located in the field of Tysons Corner (Virginia), poses next to a Chevrolet Malibu with some of his executives of sales. Gallart makes sure that he has turned to wake up the interest of the clients to acquire a vehicle or to change the one that now they take as one new.
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Ken Thomas
Detroit, Michigan / AP
His enormous experience and this refined "smell" for the business that he has acquired throughout more than twenty years in the sale of cars do that the words of Lalin Gallart, new Sales manager of Koons Tysons Chevrolet, they are taken very seriously.
“ Yes, the sales of cars are returning”, he affirms smilingly and with very much optimism. “And I am going to put an example: only this weekend, between Saturday, the 31st of January and Sunday, the 1st of February, we sold 20 motorcars and vans”, it adds, in his center of operations located in 2000 Chain Bridge Road of the area of Tysons Corner, Vienna (Virginia).
To what does this change owe?, we ask, and Gallart answers immediately: "Because there are good cars, and that's why the people now are ready to do business”.
He adds that “on the same Saturday, the 31st we appreciate a whole of 29 cars”, and that means that the persons want to know how much they are owing and what the current value of his car is, to change them into the new one. Gallart, of Cuban origin, was employed approximately 15 years at several dealers, always successfully. “I am of return in
Koons Tysons Chevrolet, where only I take two weeks, but I have entered with good foot”, it expresses happily.
Also, he considers that saying dealer “has a special dealing for the Hispanic community and is provided with six executives of sales who speak Spanish; also, in most of the sections of new and secondhand cars we have Hispanic personnel”.
Many offers
Gallart announces that in these days there are "special" many in offer, that is to say vehicles used at prices as low as of 3.900 dollars, with different monthly payments, “some of them so comfortable that they come to only 150 dollars a month, quite within reach of the community”, as he tells. As for the new cars, it indicates that for example Chevrolet Aveo is offered to only to $ 8,888 while Chevrolet Cobalt sells at the reasonable price of $ 10,988.
The models Tahoe and Malibu, also of the line Chevrolet, the same way stand out for his good sales. “And this year 2009 has just gone out the new Traverse, a SUV of familiar type, which is selling enough, because it is for seven passengers and because it uses less combustible. It is fabulous”, it recommends.
With the community
Further on, he affirms that with the Hispanic clientele “basically we are trying to obtain credit to them, to help them in his language and also we can help them with our workshops, to repair his vehicles in case of an accident”.
As for the financing, Gallart supports that Koons Tysons Chevrolet helps the families that take very high letters as the payment of his vehicles. “These persons can come, where we will try to obtain something more feasible, which they could pay in 60 or 72 months, since the banks are trying to give better options”, he says.
Finally, Gallart directed a message to the community, urging it “to do business” with Koons Tysons Chevrolet. “That come to us to see, definitely we will be able to help them, since I have a lot of experience and the clientele meets me long ago in this business, where I have helped many people and in that I have gone so far as to have a very good name and a trajectory that endorses me. That's why I know that I will be able to help them”, it showed.
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REALLY THE MAELSTROM of informations related to the economic crisis that affects all of us relegated a matter of enormous importance thrown by the new government of Barack Obama. It is a question of his engaged politics of environment, which in the last week of January began doing a reality to itself with the designation of Todd Stern, an expert for climate change matters, together with new measurements which target is to reduce the emission of pollutant gases in the nation. Obama put his rubric to the first documents of his administration relative to the energy and the environment, which they have a lot to do with the sector self-propelled. In effect, the above mentioned norms think about how to stimulate the development of vehicles that they complete less combustible and reduce the energy dependency on the country. Also, Obama needed the protection Agency of the Environment (EPA, for his initials in English), so that it examines again the possibility of granting to the state of California the right to impose its own restrictions on the gas emission that cause the greenhouse effect.
UNDOUBTEDLY IT IS a brave and very responsible decision. “The United States – affirmed the president Obama in the White House - will not be a hostage of more and more limited resources, of hostile systems and of the warming of the planet”. On this matter, the public opinion emphasizes that not only the struggle impels Obama against the warming of the planet: also he hopes to create new work places. As for the appointment of Stern like “Czar of the environment”, the initiative belonged to the secretary of the State, Hillary Clinton.
THE JAPANESE MANUFACTURERS Nissan and Toyota did separately called review of thousands of his units sold in the United States, in order to preserve the safety of the users. In case of Nissan, the affected vehicles add 242.720 and correspond to the models Frontier, Pathfinder and Xterra from 2005 to 2009. In them there was a defect that can avoid the functioning of the front bags of air. Nissan communicated to the Department of Transport that the above-mentioned defect is related to the use of salt in the highways of the country to melt ice and snow. The miscellany of snow and water with the salt can penetrate in the box of the frontal sensor of impacts. If this happens, the sensor can corrode and produce the interruption of the sign, as the manufacturer argued. Nissan notified on January 20 his concessionaires on the call to review and to the owners from January 26. As for Toyota, the review fond of approximately 134.900 units of the model Yaris sold in the nation. The measurement is of prevention, since it was discovered that some Yaris models 2006 and 2007 there might have flaws in the deployment of the tensionador of the safety belt at the moment of a collision, what might damage the foam prop located in the center. Toyota will inform the owners of the vehicles affected by mail, from the first days of February.
Up to the next one,
Víctor Caycho
Publisher of Autoguide / Washington Hispanic
E-mail: victor@hwc-md.org
| More than 700 new vehicles in exhibition until Sunday, the 8th |
| Washington DC turned into world capital of the motorcar |
Víctor Caycho
New York / AP
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A Cadillac of 2010 is surrounded by special guests and public in general, during the opening of the Washington Autoshow 2009, in the Center of Conventions of Washington, on Wednesday, the 4th.
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In the spectacular ambiences of the Center of Conventions Walter E. Washington inaugurated last Wednesday, the 4th the edition number 67 of the Lounge of the Motorcar of Washington. For four days, until this Sunday, the 8th, there are exhibited the best vehicles of 42 manufacturers, both national and foreign.
The Association of Dealers of New Motorcars of the Area of Washington (WANADA, for his initials in English), organizing entity of this annual event, announced that vans have put in shop window more than 700 shining units, between cars, minivanes and utilitarian sports vehicles (SUVs).
The common denominator of the builders is in the exhibition of new cars “more friendly of the environment”, that is to say, with minor pollutant emission, as affirmed Tamara C. Darvish, the president of WANADA and vice-president of Darcars Toyota.
She added that the new edition of the Washington Edict Show is “the perfect opportunity” so that the automotive industry presents his last technological advances to the new administration of the president Barack Obama, who settled scarcely with two weeks of anteriority.
“ The new designs and innovations that the manufacturers open with his cars that will be thrown to the market this year and the next one, and also the prototypes, not only are interested in many legislators and politicians but to the public in general who loves this type of events”, it showed.
Really, in spite of the crisis economic that it affects to the country, especially to the automotive industry, it has not diminished the enthusiasm of the people, who comes in good number from Wednesday, the 4th, day in which the sample was inaugurated.
In two levels where the vehicles open the most fantastic models get together. The interest has got overturned in a special way in Green Car Pavillon, presented by Green Car Journal. There they are observed from the cars with “zero emission” – impelled by electrical batteries - up to which they use alternative fuels, between them the ethanol E-85, the compressed natural gas and the hydrogen.
In addition to the cars, the public assistant will find diversion – both for children and for adults - drawings, movies and the meeting with celebrities of the sport and of the spectacle.
Quite for only 10 dollars for adult person and 5 dollars for children from 6 to 12 years, with free revenue for the persons younger than six years. In the last days of the exhibition, the schedule will be 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, the 6th and Saturday, the 7th; and of 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. this Sunday, the 8th.
In our next edition we will present details of this traditional Lounge of the Motorcar and of the best vehicles presented during four days of exhibition.
| It presents his new racing car F-60 |
| Ferrari wants the revenge |
Mugello, Italy
AP
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The biggest page of the racing team Ferrari de Fórmula 1, with the pilots Gilles Simon (France), Marc Gene (Spain), Felipe Massa (Brazil) and Kimi Raikkonen (Finland), they pose next to the new one F-60.
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EMugello, Italy
AP
Going forward all his rivals, Ferrari presented his model for the Formula one world cup 2009 and with the slogan of recovering the pilots' title that the Brazilian Felipe Massa lost before Lewis Hamilton in the last career of the past period.
The racing car, which takes the name F-60 for 60 years of existence of the Italian racing team in the F1, was led for the first time by Massa in the Mugello circuit. The normal thing is that Ferrari presents his new single-seaters in his Fiorano head office, but a snowfall had to do a change of last hour this year.
Expiring with the new regulation approved by the teams to allow more rebasamientos, some of the principal modifications to the racing car correspond to aerodynamic aspects. For example, the front aileron is bigger, while the later one is higher and narrow.
Massa declared himself “a little astonished” for the size of the new single-seater.
“ A bigger single-seater was already waiting for me, with the enormous (front) ailerons, as they it were 10 years ago old, but it is compact, with something of similar to a Formula 3 ", supported Massa.
Perhaps the most important change corresponded to the called system KERS, a device that allows the reduction of the emission of dioxide of carbon without affecting the yield of the single-seater
Massa pointed out that he feels prepared “to fight for a championship that will be more combative than never”.
The director of the team, Stefano Domenicali, declared that they proposed to combine in the new racing car the history of the F1 and Ferrari's long tie with the sport.
“ Ferrari is the only team who has disputed 60 championships and that's why the name F60... this is a complicated moment and it is when it is necessary to look forward. The target is that we have a F120 some day”, it added.
“ Our ADN allows us to continue in this sport and we are completely focused”, affirmed Domenicali. “We are optimistic even in these difficult moments for all. I am sure that when we manage to spend this complicated situation, the Formula one will be stronger than it was earlier”, he noticed.
Another challenge
Domenicali also referred to the new rules that will border to the teams to the use of eight engines during the period, with the requisite of which each one lasts at least three careers.
“ We can use one on Friday, change it on Saturday and then a third Sunday”, he said. “It is not known yet what the sanction will be if a ninth engine is used”, he mentioned.
Domenicali denied that the team should propose to give engines the team Sling, which is in search of a new proprietor.
“ The possibility is almost of 0 per cent”, he insisted.
Ferrari initiated his winter trainings stage in Madonna Di Campiglio. The first official trainings are realized in the Portuguese Portimao locality.
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