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Bob Lutz, vice-president of General Motors announces the throwing of his new sports van, the Chevrolet Equinox 2010, which will enter production immediately to be distributed from the middle of the year. The official début of this compact crossover, whose direct injection gives him very high yield and better efficiency, will take place in the Lounge of the Motorcar of Detroit that inaugurates next week.
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From Detroit
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The American manufacturer General Motors Corp offered more details on his sports van Chevrolet Equinox 2010, in moments in which it went on from the words to the facts and began constructing more efficient motorcars in the fuel consumption to compete with other self-propelled signatures.
The Equinox 2010 offers direct injection. General Motors announced that the model, with 2,4 liters capacity and four cylinders, will cover 12,75 kilometers per every liter of gasoline (30 miles per gallon) in the freeway and 8,9 kilometers per liter (21 miles per gallon) in the city, according to information of the Agency of Environmental Protection (EPA, for his initials in English).
The direct injection places to the fuel in the cylinder instead of combining it with the first air, achieving that the engine is more powerful and efficient. General Motors announced last week that engines as this one will be available in 38 of the models 2010, what supposes an increase of 18 models of 2009.
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General Motors distributed this first photo of new Chevrolet Equinox 2010 ready for his presentation of next week in the Lounge of Detroit 2009.
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A “Swiss razor”
The Equinox 2010, according to GM, has in addition to a system of conduction generated by electric power that improves the yield and allows to the driver to cover 17,7 kilometers (11 miles) extra in every gasoline tank
Describing it as the "Swiss razor" of the cars for his qualities, the vice-president of General Motors, Bob Lutz, told that the new van moves away from the most square style of the ancient Equinox, which appeared in 2004.
The new design is a merger of Chevrolet Malibu Sedan, one of the better sold vehicles of the company, and the Traverse, which went out in sale this autumn.
The signature confirmed that the vehicle will be presented in Detroit during the exhibition North American International Auto Show, which begins in the second week of this month.
GM added that the Equinox will be to the sale in the United States in the middle of 2009 to compete with the vans Ford Escape y Hyundai Santa Fe. He still has not announced the price to himself.
His characteristics
In the beginning, this model will only be commercialized in the American continent, although it would not be strange that it could already come to Europe in 2010.
The mechanical scale of Chevrolet Equinox will be composed by two gasoline engines: 2,4 liters of four cylinders in line, 182 CV and 235 Nm (23,97 mkg), on the one hand, and for other, 3,0 liters of six cylinders in V, 255 CV and 290 Nm (29,58 mkg). Both will share the system of direct injection of fuel. According to information facilitated by Chevrolet, two propellents have an autonomy of approximately 800 kilometers.
Both mechanics gets together with an automatic change of converter of pair Hydra-Matic of six speeds (in case of 3.0 V6, will have in a sequential way with operation of each of the marches across a few levies placed along with the frill.
Chevrolet Equinox will have a braking system with drafty discs of 321x30 mm in the front wheels and 303x20 mm in the rears. As for the tires, with the engine 2,4 there will be available ones some of dimensions 225/65 with 17 inches rims, while with the engine 3,0 they will be able to mount a few tires 235/55 with 18 inches rims and some 235/55 with 19 inches rims.
Inside his equipment of entertainment and connectivity, Chevrolet Equinox will be able to offer system of free hands Bluetooth, brought in USB, navigation system with DVD that includes two independent screens behind the headrests of the front seats and modern system of sound of up to eight loudspeakers and 250 watts of potency.
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A BIG EXPECTATION has been generated in all the spheres of the automotive industry. Not only for appreciating the immediate effects of the help for more than 17.000 million dollars granted at the end of December to three American manufacturers: General Motors, Ford Motor y Chrysler, but especially therefore it will happen in a few days in Detroit. This legendary City of the Engine prepares to present his traditional Edict Show with which it starts the world period of the car lounges in the whole world. The organizers of 101 version of the Lounge of Detroit prove to be optimists, in spite of the difficult circumstances derived from the global economic crisis. They know that Three Big ones are ready to conquer all kinds of obstacles, with major reason after receiving the multimillionaire help that they were requesting and that will give them a breather of several months. Also there join the builders of other continents, which luck depends on the results of the centenary Lounge. The decision of all is to show the best of his shop window and of course they will exhibit radical changes in his models focused in the manufacture of more efficient vehicles and rendidores, like Chevrolet Equinox 2010 that we present in our front and interior pages. That changes they come, that is undoubted, and the people of Detroit are ready to do it.
THERE IS NOT DOUBT that the moticia surprise came at the end of the year 2008, when it was known that the exports of Japan had a 26,7 per cent unusual collapse in November. The proper Japanese Department of Finance announced this fact on eve of the Christmas, what anticipates a shaded horizon for the Japanese industry, for a minor demand of his products, especially in the world of motorcars and of the electronics. Diverse economists warned that the sales on the outside – the prop of the second economy of the world - can wait even worse moments because there are no recovery perspectives in the world economic situation.“ The demand is cooling down quickly not only in the United States and Europe but also in Russia and the Middle East, and we are foreseeing a major collapse in the exports with the deterioration of the global economy”, affirmed Hideki Matsumura, economist of the Institute of Investigation of Japan in Tokyo. Big exporting companies of this oriental country, like Toyota Motor Corp. and Sony Corp have reduced his production, work places and projections of profit, considering the collapse of the consumption. Now all the companies of the sector are taking measures to attack with prudence but with decision on the world markets. The construction of new models of cars, which use cheaper and efficient energies, is the order voice.
Up to the next one,
Víctor Caycho,
Publisher of Autoguía/WashingtonHispanic
E-mail: victor@hwc-md.org
| His 101 celebrates edition from January 11 until January 25 |
| I list the Lounge of Detroit |
From Detroit, Michigan
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Drivers cross the Interstate congested one 75 in Detroit, Michigan, city that prepares to inaugurate 101 version of his famous Edict Show next Sunday, the 11th.
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The lounges of the engine as that it is inaugurated next Sunday, the 11th in Detroit, the City of the Engine of the United States, there are no only places where the people are going to buy a motorcar or a van. Also there are elegant spaces even the minimal detail, where they are going to be admired. Imagine, every five minutes someone is in charge of extracting sheen to the vehicle and the foci light so much the motorcars that it seems that these were acting in the most important stage of the world. There are, also, the places chosen by the marks to discover new models and to present prototypes so sophisticated that they seem impossible.
Big question
Nevertheless, for any persons in these moments the industry of the engine is not for exhibitions. Big number of factories is closed, the sales of vehicles have diminished and accumulate in big parqueaderos. The question is clear: is it convenient to spend in the lounges?
Precisely with his “Three big ones” (The Big Three-GM, Ford and Chrysler) asking the State for help to survive, Detroit is the manager of opening a period composed by 24 international fairs. This year is celebrated from January 11 until January 25, in his 101 edition.
Sling announced that it will not give press conference to promote his models during the fair. And it is still still to see what they will do in the event the hostesses, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Will they have money to spend it in the lounge?, it is the big question.
Let's not forget that Detroit is the most important fair of the United States. There the industry is quoted to begin the year and to give many of the keys from what it is going to go on. It is one of the lounges that is provided with more presentations of new models. In his past edition it was provided with the presence of 3.700 managers of 2.000 companies, 6.000 journalists of 63 countries and 700.000 visitors. The election of the Motorcar of the Year and the Van of the Year, in charge of a panel of recognized specializing journalists of the whole planet, is continued by interest in all the manufacturers and public in general.
In Detroit, the organizers indicated that this year, in spite of everything, there will be many innovations. Between them, they mentioned the presentation of new models like the electrical vehicle FT-EV of Toyota, and also the series 3 and the Z4 of BMW, the hybrid HS 250 of Lexus, the prototype S60 of Volvo, the Soul of Kia, the prototype BueZero of Mercedes Benz and the A7 of Audi, in addition to the Equinox 2010 that we announce in this edition.
“ The automotive industry is very strong and it will overcome all the difficulties that appear”, affirmed very optimistic the president of the NAIAS, organizing entity of the Lounge of Detroit.
| Thanks to multimillionaire help that came at the end of the year |
| “Tune up” for the self-propelled ones |
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In the line of assembly of Ford's plant, a tier of robots the new models Mustang assemble 2009. This constructor was one of that she turned out to be relieved by a loan superior to 17.000 million dollars.
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Mike Harris
California / AP
It was like a failure movie “to the style Alfred Hitchcock”. And as in these masterpieces, the failure through that the American automotive industry lived for several weeks broke in the last minute, when the hopes of the protagonist had already faded away. The most representative manufacturers (GM, Ford and Chrysler), were depending on an urgent financial aid to be supported, after the reduction of the world sales, and they obtained it.
It was a question of a real Christmas present, and he was compared by one “tune up” completed of engine. This way, the called “Three Big ones” will manage to survive this year, something that some of them were doubting before the help of emergency approved on Monday, the 22nd by the administration of George W. Bush, coded in 17.400 million dollars.
Now, the manufacturers have until March 31 to present a plan that assures his viability, something that according to Robert Scott, economist of the Institute of Economic policy (EPI), it is possible, any time there are new money supplements across the bundle of economic stimuli for that one expects from the new administration of the president Barack Obama.
" It is an industry so big that it cannot sink", Scott anticipated, although an important element for his continuity will be the economic recovery.
" Now it is necessary to begin for recovering the consumers who yes can buy a car and do not do it for fear of the existing suspense", told Jesse Toprak, executive director of industrial analysis of the car portal Edmunds.com, convinced in that the health of the car industry is hard tied to that of the housing.
In this line, Daniel Burrus, of the counsel Burrus Research, is sure that the help of the government would be more effective if it had been assined to incentives for the cars buy.
" There it is where the solution is to long term", thought Burrus.
Tom Taulli, founder of BizEquity, a company of evaluation of companies, pointed out that to small scale the business that can suffer a fall with the recovery of the automotive industry is those of repairs and parts of cars. In Los Angeles in average this business has gained 39 per cent in value in the last six months, simultaneously that the cars concessionaires were losing 24 per cent.
But the problems between the establishments of sale of cars it does not seem that they are going to be solved by the plan of rescue of the manufacturing ones.
Hard negotiation
Nevertheless, between the big questions for solving the negotiation will be with the workpeople, which according to some experts can be difficult.
" One of the conditions of the viability plan is that the labor costs diminish at the levels of the Asian manufacturers, like Toyota, Sling and Nissan", mentioned Ed Kim, analyst of AutoPacif Inc in Tustin. It indicated that that will suppose clippings in the compensations that the workpeople of the manufacturing Americans receive.
UAW, the trade union of workpeople of the sector, has already showed his dissatisfaction for the conditions of the emergency loan century.
" We are grateful that the president Bush has acted to save the industry, but we are disappointed by the fact that he has added unjust conditions for the workpeople", there declared Ron Gettelfinger, president of UAW in a bulletin expressed by the trade union.
Economists as Scott, nevertheless, prove to be given hope from that with the support of the new administration Obama the sector comes to sure port during the next year.
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